Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to ...

Astronomers have observed a white dwarf, a highly compact stellar ember, that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to ...

"It shows that Makemake is not an inactive remnant of the outer solar system, but a dynamic body where methane ice is still ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered the remains of a frozen, Pluto-like world being devoured by a ...

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

Could the chemical debris of a shattered world hold clues to life elsewhere in the universe? Astronomers studying the white ...

What will our solar system look like after the Sun dies? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society hop | Space ...

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College will open this fall for public viewing on Thursday evenings, 7:30-9:30 pm, weather permitting. You can follow activities on Instagram@keebleobservatory ...

The cosmos has once again presented us with a mystery. Astronomers have recently tracked an unidentified object moving past Pluto, the dwarf planet at the edge of our solar system. This discovery has ...

The spacecraft will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, study how Earth’s outer atmosphere reacts to solar activity and ...

Created by the sun, the protective bubble of the heliosphere shields our solar system from harmful radiation. A new mission ...