At the heart of the Helix Nebula, a dying star may have destroyed a neighboring planet, revealing a rare and spectacular ...

NASA's James Webb Telescope has been investigating the first-ever case of a star caught swallowing a planet —and, in classic ...

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

NASA says observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a surprising new twist in the study of a star believed to have engulfed a planet. The latest data suggests that instead of the ...

New observations upended scientists' standing hypothesis about how a star would engulf a planet, causing its demise.

When the planet finally fell in toward the star, it splashed away layers of gas from the star’s outer atmosphere, and this gas gradually cooled into cold dust which now sits as a cloud around the star ...

A 40-year-old space enigma has been unraveled: a white dwarf star at the center of the Helix Nebula has been annihilating a ...

It turns out this star may have destroyed a planet ... debris pulled onto the white dwarf, as the death knell from a planet that was destroyed by the white dwarf in the Helix nebula," said ...

Odd X-ray signal was 'death knell' of planet destroyed by zombie star (video) "We have also resumed the observation campaign of NGC 300 OT, the closest ILRT ever observed, at 'just' six and a half ...

If confirmed, this would be the first case of a planet seen to be destroyed by the central star in a planetary nebula. Observations by ROSAT, Chandra, and XMM-Newton between 1992 and 2002 show ...

Since the 1980s, a strange X-ray emission has puzzled astronomers. At the heart of the Helix Nebula, a dying star may have destroyed a neighboring planet, revealing a rare and spectacular phenomenon.