By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its ...

A team of astronomers used three instruments from the Keck Observatory to study WR 104, a stellar system nicknamed the 'death ...

A new view of the Helix Nebula reveals a dying white dwarf star at the nebula's center. This star's violent eating habits ...

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear ...

Kohoutek 4-55 is a dazzling planetary nebula captured in vivid color by the Hubble Space Telescope. Formed by the dramatic ...

Pleasant Valley graduate Katie Melbourne has worked with NASA and Ball Aerospace, but got her start with the Popular ...

New observations upended scientists' standing hypothesis about how a star would engulf a planet, causing its demise.

Every star that hangs upon the evening firmament will one day die, its lights snuffed and its fires cooling in the dwindling ...