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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

So they were pretty big! The other reason is because of how close the two huge dwarf stars are to each other. They are about 25 times closer to each other than our solar system's innermost planet ...

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could ...

The Helix Nebula, also known as Caldwell 63, is located 650 million light-years from Earth. It is the glowing remains of a dying star, much like our Sun.

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