This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the time, they believed the ...

Why was Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet? One might think that it’s purely a matter of size. Mercury, the smallest of the ...

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

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

This planet could have, at first, been farther away from the white dwarf, but then was pulled inwards ... star in a planetary nebula." In about 5 billion years, our sun will run out of fuel ...

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 ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star, one of our closest stellar neighbours.