A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.
"This strange disorder makes it a unique inside-out system," study lead author Thomas Wilson, physics professor from the University of Warwick, said in a statement. "Rocky planets don't usually form ...
A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...
Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...
A massive star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has simply disappeared. Some astronomers believe that it's collapsed in on itself and formed a black hole.
A rocky exoplanet in the LHS 1903 system defies planet formation models, hinting that gravitational upheaval reshaped the red ...
Earlier this week, science writer Paul Sutter covered a bold new study that leans toward so‑called “fuzzy” dark matter as the ...
The Egg Nebula, located around 1,000 light years away, is home to a dying star entering last phase of its life.
NASA and SpaceX will both provide live coverage of the Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station. Here's how to ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals the clearest view yet of the Egg Nebula. This structure of gas and dust was created by a dying, Sun-like star ...
Hubble Space Telescope has captured the death throes of the youngest and closest pre-planetary nebula from us, offering the most detailed view yet of the Egg Nebula's outflows of glowing gas, light, ...
The Necklace Nebula (PN G054.2-03.4) formed when one star in a close binary system expanded into a red giant and engulfed its ...