Astronomers have recently observed a planet being torn apart by its “zombie” white dwarf star, a phenomenon that challenges ...

Discovery of 2017OF201, a large trans-Neptune Object, challenges previous beliefs about the Kuiper Belt and hints at the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The orbit of the newly detected dwarf planet ‘Ammonite’ (2023 KQ14, shown in red) compared to the ...

The destroyed planet has spewed material onto the white dwarf's surface, with astronomers detecting 13 different elements ...

Exoplanet scientists are eagerly awaiting the discovery of an atmosphere around a terrestrial exoplanet. Not a thin, tenuous, ...

Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located about 145 ...

In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and collapse under its own gravity, becoming a white dwarf. Though Earth-sized, this dense remnant will retain much of the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have detected gas on the distant dwarf planet, Makemake. Credit: NASA / ESA / Southwest Research Institute / A. Parker illustration Scientists have ...

Planetary scientist Adeene Denton runs computer simulations to investigate Pluto, the moons of Saturn and other icy bodies in the solar system.

Our solar system is much like a trail of microcosmic breadcrumbs: Follow the molecular bits as far back as they go, and you'll learn a thing or two about where many of our planets and other celestial ...

Scientists have detected methane gas glowing faintly above Makemake, an icy dwarf planet smaller and farther than Pluto in space. Until now, Pluto was the only object that far out in the solar system ...