A new image released by NASA shows what could be a captivating — and terrifying — event roughly 650 light-years away: a dying ...

Now, data from two X-ray telescopes, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton, has uncovered the grim fate of a planet there. The Helix Nebula is called a ...

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

How small can you go when forming stars and brown dwarfs? The Flame Nebula, part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, is a ...

According to a press release, astronomers may investigate the last phases of a dying star with fresh James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images. Showing a Taurus constellation planetary nebula 1,500 ...

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

A new view of the Helix Nebula reveals a dying white dwarf star at the nebula's center. This star's violent eating habits could be responsible for strange X-ray emissions in the region.

Astronomers discovered FFPs (free floating planets- rogue planets) more than 20 years ago, using the United Kingdom Infrared ...

A 40-year-old space enigma has been unraveled: a white dwarf star at the center of the Helix Nebula has been annihilating a ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Orion Nebula is a giant gas cloud 1,344 light years away. It's also a cosmic factory for producing new stars. Astronomers recently observed over 900 small ...