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

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic collision between a star and its planet, but ...

When the planet finally fell in toward the star, it splashed away layers of gas from the star’s outer atmosphere, and this gas gradually cooled into cold dust which now sits as a cloud around the star ...

Glowing like a multi-faceted jewel, the planetary nebula IC 418 lies about 2000 light-years from Earth in the constellation ...

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

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

The Helix Nebula, also known as Caldwell 63, is located 650 million light-years from Earth. It is the glowing remains of a dying star, much like our Sun.

A new view of the Helix Nebula reveals a dying white dwarf star at the nebula's center. This star's violent eating habits ...

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

Appropriately named, Helene is a Trojan moon, so called because it orbits at a Lagrange point. Two protostars are hidden in a single pixel near the center of a striking hourglass-shaped nebula in this ...

This image of the Helix Nebula, released on March 4, 2025, shows a potentially destructive white dwarf at the nebula's center ...

In about 5 billion years, our Sun will run out of fuel and expand, possibly engulfing Earth. These end stages of a star's life can be utterly ...