This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

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

The Australian research could lead to new insights about which suns could support life on distant worlds. Find out more.

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

A 40-year-old space enigma has been unraveled: a white dwarf star at the center of the Helix Nebula has been annihilating a ...

Astronomers are racing to protect the dark skies as private companies seek to place large advertisements in Earth orbit ...

Kellie Gerardi of Jupiter, is her own kind of astronaut, one who marries science and sparkle and who wants to show other ...

Deep Space Nine broke from a utopian vision, tackling colonialism, war, and moral ambiguity. Now, that realism is more relevant than ever.

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...