After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The ...

Astronomers have been recording the signal for more than four decades, but this is the first time they've nabbed its origin.

Stunning James Webb Space Telescope images reveal new details about a pair of mysterious infrared rings around planetary ...

The X-ray signal from WD 2226-210 is similar to the X-ray emissions of two other white dwarfs that do not sit within cocoons ...

A decades-old astronomical mystery has finally been solved—an enigmatic X-ray signal emanating from deep space turns out to ...

Astronomers have detected mysterious X-ray signals coming from a nearby white dwarf star for more than 40 years. We may now ...

About 650 light-years from here, in the constellation Aquarius, lies the planetary nebula Caldwell 63, commonly known as the ...

On Feb. 28, seven planets—Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury, and Saturn—will all grace the early evening sky.

"We might have finally found the cause of a mystery that's lasted over 40 years," said researcher Sandino Estrada-Dorado.

A white dwarf, or dying star, caused the destruction of a Jupiter-sized planet that is only around 650 light years away from ...

Since they were first detected over four decades ago, unusually powerful x-ray emissions originating from the site of a dying ...

Co-author Martin Guerrero from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia told Phys.org that debris from the shattered planet ...