Since the 1980s, a strange X-ray emission has puzzled astronomers. At the heart of the Helix Nebula, a dying star may have ...

The X-ray signal from WD 2226-210 is similar to the X-ray emissions of two other white dwarfs that do not sit within cocoons ...

Astronomers have detected mysterious X-ray signals coming from a nearby white dwarf star for more than 40 years. We may now ...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard’s Star, the ...

TRAPPIST-1 is a red dwarf star about 40.7 light-years away from Earth. It is of particular interest because it has seven ...

After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The ...

"We might have finally found the cause of a mystery that's lasted over 40 years," said researcher Sandino Estrada-Dorado.

A white dwarf, or dying star, caused the destruction of a Jupiter-sized planet that is only around 650 light years away from ...

A not-so-distant white dwarf named WD 2226-210 has been on our radar since the 1980s for releasing X-rays, now we may know ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a ...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth.

Space scientists say they have located a planet killer capable of ripping worlds to pieces. Researchers believe they've found ...