Astronomers first began detecting the Helix Nebula’s X-ray signals in 1980. Although they knew the signals came from the center of the nebula, they didn’t know the specific source. The Helix Nebula is ...

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All good things must come to an end, and that is even true for planets. Recent research has uncovered what appears to be the grizzly death of an exoplanet in the nearby Helix Nebula, which seems to ...

After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The old star might have destroyed a nearby planet. Dating back to 1980, X-ray ...

Newswise — After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The old star might have destroyed a nearby planet. Dating back to ...