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

A nearby cosmic ticking time bomb has been found! Just 150 light years away, a pair of white dwarf stars are on a death ...

So they were pretty big! The other reason is because of how close the two huge dwarf stars are to each other. They are about 25 times closer to each other than our solar system's innermost planet ...

This discovery offers a glimpse into the dramatic and explosive fates awaiting some of the universe's most fascinating ...

Scientists have been receiving X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula for decades, but now they believe it may hide a horrifying ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from the sun. Since the discovery of more Pluto-sized dwarf planets, that ...

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