A decades-old cosmic mystery may finally be solved. Scientists now suspect that the strange X-ray glow from a distant white ...

For over 40 years, astronomers have been puzzled by strange X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf. Now, they may ...

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 ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have observed enigmatic rings in the planetary nebula NGC 1514, visible in the mid-infrared band. Results of the new observations, published ...

If confirmed, this would be the first case of astronomers seeing a planet being consumed by the white dwarf at the center of a planetary nebula.

The white dwarf is at the center of a planetary nebula illustrated by the blue gas in the background. The planetary system also includes a planet at the top left and another at the bottom right. The ...

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

The Flame Nebula, located 1,400 light-years from Earth, is a region where many stars are forming and is less than a million ...

This planetary nebula is the remains of a star similar to the sun, which shed most of its mass at the end of its life, with its core becoming a smoldering white dwarf shrouded by this ex-stellar ...

The white dwarf is visible as the magenta dot right ... case of a planet seen to be destroyed by the central star in a planetary nebula.” The team analyzed data from four different X-ray ...

This image features a deep field view of the Cassiopeia constellation immersed in the glow of ionized hydrogen gas, where the ...