Pluto is no longer classified as a planet, it’s a dwarf planet, however, it still has five moons. Now astronomers say they have detected CO2 and other compounds on one of its moons for the first time ...

A team of scientists at the Institute for Advanced Study School of Natural Sciences in Princeton, New Jersey, might have found a new dwarf planet, potentially leading to more evidence of a theoretical ...

In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and collapse under its own gravity, becoming a white dwarf. Though Earth-sized, this dense remnant will retain much of the ...

The findings could change how we view planetary systems in their afterlife. A white dwarf star has been caught in the middle of consuming a planetary relic, offering fresh clues as to what happens to ...

Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located about 145 light-years away, is still consuming the rocky remains of its former ...

A 3-billion-year-old white dwarf, the core of a dead star, consumed an exoplanet from its former planetary system. Credit: NASA / ESA / Joseph Olmsted illustration A dead star core about 145 ...

The recently spotted asteroid 2025 PN7 appears to be the source of the rumor mill about Earth's supposed second moon. Earth has several quasi-moons that get their name due to the fact that they ...

George Darwin, the second son of Charles Darwin, came up with a theory in 1880. He said that the moon was once part of the Earth. He suggested the Earth spun so fast that a piece of it broke away and ...