Hubble discovered a white dwarf planet devouring a Pluto-like object, revealing debris rich in water and nitrogen.

By studying the chemical composition of an odd, dying star, astronomers discovered that it had been feasting on what used to ...

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

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

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

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

Summer 2015 was marked by a unique astronomical event, which occurs approximately once in the history of astronomy. The New Horizons station is the first man-made object to reach Pluto. Till now, an ...

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 ...

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.

Astronomers spot a white dwarf consuming a Pluto-like icy world, uncovering volatile elements that reshape our understanding ...

This cosmic drama offers a unique glimpse into the future fate of our own Solar system and highlights the power of Hubble’s ultraviolet vision to probe stellar remains that would otherwise go ...