A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.

Now, data from two X-ray telescopes, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton, has uncovered the grim fate of a planet there. The Helix Nebula is called a ...

Debris from the former planet would produce X-rays as it fell upon the star. The Chandra X-Ray Observatory released the image of the nebula, with the white dwarf at the center, us ing data ...

Secret ‘Planet 9’ hiding in our Solar System and interstellar ‘cigar’ on list of most mysterious alien objects in space. An invisible world, a rectangular nebula, and a galaxy holding a ...

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

This discovery marks a major breakthrough in astronomy and the ongoing search for planets outside our solar system.

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

The outlook isn’t great for the exoplanet HIP 67522 b. Over the next 100 million years, powerful magnetic fields and destructive cosmic radiation will continue eating away at the distant planet ...

The Helix Nebula, also known as Caldwell 63, is 650 light-years from Earth, according to NASA.It's the remains of a dying star, which is gradually shedding its outer gas layers into the ...

An unusual x-ray signal from the Helix Nebula, first detected in 19180, could stem from a star destroying a nearby planet. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...