Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

Astronomers have long suspected that an enormous, unseen planet is hiding somewhere far beyond Neptune, quietly shaping the ...

A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear ...

Astronomers have long suspected that there was at least one exoplanet orbiting Barnard's Star — a red dwarf with a mass ... similar to how the moon pulls on our planet and causes Earth's tides.

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high-mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light ...

he's already on the search for them near our sun. If Whyte can find a white dwarf that aligns with the model from his paper, he'll search for a planet in its orbit. He'll use the observational ...

Pluto was once called the ninth planet, but in 2006, scientists changed its status to a dwarf planet. A planet must clear its orbit of other objects, but Pluto shares its space with many small icy ...