WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned out star called a white dwarf offers a ...

"We do not currently have a consensus whether Earth could avoid being engulfed by the red giant sun in 6 billion years." ...

In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of a huge galaxy seems to cause stars to ...

Unfortunately, scientists are still unsure if life could survive there for long. Some argue that red dwarf suns are too ...

The jet in question originates from a supermassive black hole at the galaxy's center, which has a mass 6.5 billion times that ...

The reason we call dark matter dark isn't that it's some shadowy material. It's because dark matter doesn't interact with ...

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology ...

A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. The team has determined that the star is a white dwarf, a system ...

Do aliens sleep? You may take sleep for granted, but research suggests many planets that could evolve life don’t have a day ...

NASA's Hubble Telescope captured this image of spiral galaxy IC 1954 which is located in the Horologium constellation. This galaxy is about 45 million light-years away and was first discovered in 126 ...

Astronomers have found an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting a distant white dwarf, shedding light on the possible future of our ...

Astronomers have directed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call ...