A new image released by NASA shows what could be a captivating — and terrifying — event roughly 650 light-years away: a dying ...

A 40-year-old space enigma has been unraveled: a white dwarf star at the center of the Helix Nebula has been annihilating a nearby planet, triggering strange X-ray radiation, which unveiled the star's ...

A new view of the Helix Nebula reveals a dying white dwarf star at the nebula's center. This star's violent eating habits ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

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The next partial eclipse will happen in the early hours of March 29, with it being visible mostly in the northeast starting ...

The Sh2-284 nebula has been imaged VLT Survey Telescope. The "region of dust and gas that’s teeming with young stars, located some 15 000 light-years away from Earth," according to the European ...

The presence of carbon dioxide supports the core accretion theory. This process also shaped Jupiter and Saturn in our solar system. The HR 8799 system is just 30 million years old. Its young ...

Observers refer to this emission region as the Omega, the Swan, and even the Checkmark Nebula. M17 doesn’t even know what constellation to call home — most of it lies in Sagittarius ...

Astronomers rely on it to unravel the deepest secrets by peaking at distant solar systems and capturing planets like those in ours. Much recently, the Webb Telescope was able to capture its first ...

The Orion nebula. Credit: Chuck Ayoub/Wikimedia Commons ... sailing through varying conditions at sea,” Maconi said. As the solar system passed through this region, its denser environment ...