Why will our Sun expel its outer layers as it dies? Daniel StanyerAugusta, Kansas First, let's discriminate between expansion ...

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

The most powerful telescope ever launched into space uncovered a cluster of forming stars within the "toe beans" of the Cat's ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

The smoking gun of the creation of lithium in explosions on white dwarf stars may have been found, in a spike of gamma rays ...

Such changes would make it difficult for life as we know it to survive on Earth. The increased heat and radiation would ...

The Owl Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula — a type of object that yields glimpses of stellar death in slow motion.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists found a dusty disk surrounding the dying white dwarf creating the famous Ring Nebula.

The Eskimo Nebula (Image: NASA)) The youngest known planetary nebula, formed by a star rapidly evolving into a white dwarf, expelling gas and dust into space.

Spectacular new images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope gave astronomers a detailed, never-before-seen look at a dying star. The star is actually one of two at the heart of NGC 1514, a nebula in ...

Space Science nasa james webb telescope James Webb telescope captures dual-ringed nebula in stunning detail A dying white dwarf and its orbiting binary created the uniquely shaped rings By Cal ...

A 40-year-old space enigma has been unraveled: a white dwarf star at the center of the Helix Nebula has been annihilating a nearby planet, triggering strange X-ray radiation, which unveiled the ...