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 ...

The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned out star called a white dwarf offers a glimpse of what may be in store ...

The scientific community has long grappled with the question of whether these stars can support planets capable of sustaining ...

In a surprise finding, astronomers using the NASA/ESA 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 ...

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

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 ...

A newly discovered Earth-size world orbiting a dead white dwarf star gives scientists a hint of what the solar system may look like in billions of years.

Astronomers have discovered a planet roaming in the Milky Way which is orbiting a white dwarf. Around 1.9 times the mass of ...

The newly discovered planetary system consists of a white dwarf about half the mass of our sun and an Earth-like planet in an ...

All of our observations suggest that dark matter and light only have gravity in common. When dark matter is clustered around ...

The rocky planet, roughly twice Earth's size, has offered astronomers a glimpse of one of Earth’s possible futures — if it ...