A star has already died. Its time as a star burning like the sun is over, and after spewing its outer material into space, ...

A second-generation planet might be orbiting a white dwarf, in an astronomy first, according to new research.

Ultra-detailed simulations are showing how the first stars lit up the dark Universe and seeded space with elements such as carbon, oxygen, and iron. The MEGATRON project could bridge JWST observations ...

Look up at the night sky with the naked eye and it may seem like it rarely changes. Yet the universe is in constant flux.

A dead star’s wreckage may be the birthplace of a new planet. The existence of second-generation planets was predicted ...

As published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, theoretical astrophysicists Konstantin Batygin and Jim Fuller of Caltech, ...

CosmoCube will use the far side of the Moon as a shield from Earth’s radio noise to search for a faint signal from the ...

Public broadcaster PBS has long been a home for excellent documentaries on the subject, from films by famed directors to ...

"What Hubble is showing us in this white dwarf system is something we haven’t seen before," said astronomer Jamie Williams.

A second-generation planet may orbit the white dwarf HS 0209+0832, built from material its star shed as it died, astronomers report. Sometimes the best discoveries are hiding in old data. By reviewing ...

Earth seems like a troubled place right now, but at least our cosmic surroundings appear peaceful. This is not universally ...

Astronomers say they have have detected a radio emission from Beta Pictoris b, an exoplanet 63 light-years from Earth, ...