With Senate confirmation of Jared Isaacman to head NASA, the billionaire space pilot could begin pushing forward his vision ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to the dwarf planet Pluto, a finding with ...

Artist's impression of white dwarf WD 1647+375 accreting icy planetary fragments from a pluto-like world, creating the chemical signature idenfitifed in this study. Credit: Snehalata Sahu / University ...

Astronomers have discovered a white dwarf star in the Milky Way consuming a Pluto-like icy world, offering insights into planetary systems beyond our own. The detection of nitrogen-rich ices hints at ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to the ...

Hubble Spots White Dwarf Devouring Icy Pluto-Like Planet 260 Light-Years Away Hubble observations show a white dwarf star shredding and accreting a volatile-rich, Pluto-like body 260 light-years away.

Nature can get brutal. On a cosmic scale, things get even more destructive—leaving behind carnage made of stellar dust the size of an entire planet. Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...

Not every meal in space is a quiet one. Sometimes stars feast on their neighbors in dramatic fashion. Recently, astronomers caught a glimpse of a white dwarf star devouring the remnants of a ...

This artist's concept shows a white dwarf surrounded by a large debris disk. Debris from pieces of a captured, Pluto-like object is falling onto the white dwarf. Credit: Artwork: NASA, Tim Pyle ...