Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...
Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...
NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has detected a white dwarf star that consumed fragments of a Pluto-like object. Space ...
In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA's Hubble Space Telescope could identify that ...
Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf ...
On Episode 176 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik are joined by Alan Stern to talk about what's next in deep ...
It's much harder to find, but there are a lot more of them." The first interstellar object to visit the solar system may have ...
Astronomers have uncovered the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being consumed by a white ...
At the vast edge of the solar system, Pluto has long been perceived as a cold and lonely dwarf planet. However, a recent ...
Discover how astronomers use stellar parallax to navigate spacecraft in deep space without relying on Earth-based beacons.