Brown dwarfs: too small to be stars, too big to be planets. Only discovered in the 1990s, these in-between cosmic objects aren't big enough to burn as hot and bright as a true star, instead usually ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to the dwarf planet Pluto, a finding with ...

Researchers from The University of Western Australia node at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have uncovered an immense structure, which spans an astonishing 185,000 light ...

Ammonite, officially designated 2023 KQ14, is a distant world that keeps its cool far beyond Neptune. The discovery appears in a peer reviewed study that also puts fresh pressure on the idea of a ...

Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf star, offering the clearest evidence yet that icy, life-delivering objects ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its ...

It's been a sad week for Red Dwarf fans after the show's creator revealed that UKTV scrapped plans for a new episode of the beloved comedy - however, not all is lost. Earlier this week, Doug Naylor, ...

Hubble has uncovered a rare ultra-massive white dwarf created in a violent star merger. Once thought to be ordinary, the star’s ultraviolet signature revealed its explosive history and hinted that ...

Sometimes, a white dwarf isn’t just a white dwarf. What seems ordinary at first glance can have a much more dramatic origin. That’s what astronomers discovered when they took a closer look at a star ...

Scientists found a “dwarf”-like creature sleeping on a tree near a hotel in Madagascar and discovered a new species, a study said. Screengrab from Anjajavy le lodge’s Facebook video As darkness ...

About 30 or more years ago, I planted a shrub in my landscape called Dwarf Hinoki Cypress. It is the first shrub to greet you as you enter my sidewalk from the driveway. It is the easiest shrub to ...

Trees are a special part of our natural world, and bring color, joy, and sometimes fruit into our lives. Whether you want to grow your own fruit (hello, lemon trees) or create texture and shape in ...