Since the 1980s, a strange X-ray emission has puzzled astronomers. At the heart of the Helix Nebula, a dying star may have ...

The X-ray signal from WD 2226-210 is similar to the X-ray emissions of two other white dwarfs that do not sit within cocoons ...

After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The ...

Astronomers have been recording the signal for more than four decades, but this is the first time they've nabbed its origin.

A not-so-distant white dwarf named WD 2226-210 has been on our radar since the 1980s for releasing X-rays, now we may know why ...

A white dwarf, or dying star, caused the destruction of a Jupiter-sized planet that is only around 650 light years away from ...

Co-author Martin Guerrero from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia told Phys.org that debris from the shattered planet ...

Space scientists say they have located a planet killer capable of ripping worlds to pieces. Researchers believe they've found ...

In this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, "cometary knots" on the Helix Nebula show blue-green heads caused by excitation of their molecular material from shocks or ultraviolet radiation.

Space scientists say they have located a planet ... X-ray missions have picked up an unusual reading from the center of the Helix Nebula. Using today’s most powerful X-ray missions they now ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula. A new image from the Hubble Space ... in disks around young stars ...

The rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in the center of the nebula is the dynamo powering ... resembling a balloon that’s been pinched around a middle waist.