About 650 light-years from here, in the constellation Aquarius, lies the planetary nebula Caldwell 63, commonly known as the ...

After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The ...

Astronomers have detected mysterious X-ray signals coming from a nearby white dwarf star for more than 40 years. We may now ...

The X-ray signal from WD 2226-210 is similar to the X-ray emissions of two other white dwarfs that do not sit within cocoons ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

"We might have finally found the cause of a mystery that's lasted over 40 years," said researcher Sandino Estrada-Dorado.

A white dwarf, or dying star, caused the destruction of a Jupiter-sized planet that is only around 650 light years away from ...

Co-author Martin Guerrero from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia told Phys.org that debris from the shattered planet ...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that not just one, but four tiny planets are circling around Barnard's Star, the ...

Space scientists say they have located a planet killer capable of ripping worlds to pieces. Researchers believe they've found ...

They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would offer a warmer climate than one orbiting a main sequence star. Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy ...