A mysterious object in our sky, Gliese 229 B, continues to intrigue astronomers. Recent revelations about its hidden identity ...

A team led by Dante Minniti and including Vatican Observatory scholars maps the Milky Way in stunning detail. Built from ...

Infrared can also reveal “cooler” objects, which glow at these wavelengths. These include brown dwarfs (“failed” stars that lack sustained nuclear fusion) or free-floating planets that do not orbit a ...

A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray telescope, Hubble and more has narrowed down its age to ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, raising questions about Earth ...

A team of astronomers has identified a rocky planet with a mass similar to Earth’s, orbiting a white dwarf star approximately ...

NASA's Webb reveals breathtaking high definition view of an exploded star.

A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...

The dividing line between stars and planets is that stars have enough mass to fuse hydrogen into helium to produce their own ...

Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.

The edge of a nearby stellar nursery called NGC 3324, found at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula, forms the “mountains” and “valleys” spanning this image captured by the James Webb Space ...

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.