Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have witnessed a rare cosmic meal: a white dwarf star consuming pieces of a ...

First, let’s compare the orbital characteristics of Pluto with those of other planets. Pluto has an orbital eccentricity (the degree to which its orbit deviates from a perfect circle) of 0.25, while ...

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...

NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has detected a white dwarf star that consumed fragments of a Pluto-like object. Space ...

The New Horizons station is the first man-made object to reach Pluto. Till now, an incredibly distant and barely seen by telescopes ice dwarf remained an almost complete mystery to scientists. Let's ...

Titan's shadow will fall on Saturn in the early hours of Sept. 20, one day before the world shines at opposition in Earth's ...

This is not cosmic déjà vu: once again, the September New Moon takes place in Virgo, a practical and organized earth sign — ...

Hubble has captured a dense, burned-out star in the act of consuming a Pluto-like object. Happening some 260 light years from Earth, the new observation, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

In a once-a-year event, Saturn is about to reach opposition, with the ringed planet appearing its best and brightest as it ...

Astronomers have uncovered the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being consumed by a white ...

Astronomers have discovered a distant white dwarf star consuming an icy, Pluto-like planetesimal. This finding reshapes our understanding of what can survive post-star death.