The destroyed planet has spewed material onto the white dwarf's surface, with astronomers detecting 13 different elements ...

In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and collapse under its own gravity, becoming a white ...

The newly discovered world is called GJ 251c and it is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away.

By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of ...

Makemake, discovered in 2005, orbits the Kuiper Belt nearly 6.8 billion kilometers from the Sun and is one of the brightest ...

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days — the ...

Our solar system now, once again, officially consists of only eight planets. Although largely debunked, speculation continued ...

By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of ...

Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

Astronomers have identified GJ 251 c, a super-Earth exoplanet just 18 light-years away, orbiting within its star's habitable ...