The destroyed planet has spewed material onto the white dwarf's surface, with astronomers detecting 13 different elements ...

What can white dwarf stars eating their own planets teach astronomers about planetary and solar system formation and ...

In an ancient star system expected to be stable and dormant, scientists found a 3 billion-year-old white dwarf star still ...

The Universe still holds many surprises, as demonstrated by this exceptional observation of a dying star devouring the ...

Astronomers using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi Island have identified a rare, ancient ...

In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and collapse under its own gravity, becoming a white ...

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

Our solar system is much like a trail of microcosmic breadcrumbs: Follow the molecular bits as far back as they go, and you'll learn a thing or two about where many of our planets and other celestial ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure if the gas is contained within a wispy atmosphere or being ejected into ...

Scientists have detected methane gas glowing faintly above Makemake, an icy dwarf planet smaller and farther than Pluto in space. Until now, Pluto was the only object that far out in the solar system ...

Pluto is a bit of a loner. The dwarf planet is no longer considered a regular planet; it does not orbit on the same plane as the solar system's eight planets; and its orbit is both highly elliptical ...

By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of ...