Pluto isn’t the only dwarf planet in our solar system's outer reaches. Now is an ideal time to look for the egg-shaped Haumea ...

It was once thought that when an aging star engulfed a planet it would be a dramatic event. Now, the Webb telescope has ...

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

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

The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion ...

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...

After the Alpha Centauri system, the next closest is Barnard’s Star, a solo red dwarf roughly 6 ... details about the planets in question, including their size. A star-planet system orbits ...

That meant the star stayed about the same size — and the planet, roughly the size of Jupiter, came to it. Over millions of ...

When the two dense stellar remnants, known as white dwarfs, finally merge, they will trigger a Type 1a supernova, a powerful ...