Saturn's rings tilt out of view every fourteen to seventeen Earth years. In 2032, they will be at their best again during ...

A decades-old cosmic mystery may finally be solved. Scientists now suspect that the strange X-ray glow from a distant white ...

"The mysterious signal we've been seeing could be caused by the debris from the shattered planet falling onto the white dwarf's surface, and being heated to glow in X-rays," said co-author Martin ...

"The mysterious signal we’ve been seeing could be caused by the debris from the shattered planet falling onto the white dwarf’s surface and being heated to glow in X-rays," said study team ...

For over 40 years, astronomers have been puzzled by strange X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf. Now, they may ...

“The mysterious signal we’ve been seeing could be caused by the debris from the shattered planet falling onto the white dwarf’s surface, and being heated to glow in X-rays,” said Martin ...

Now, astronomers believe the X-rays are created by fragments of a shattered planet falling onto the white dwarf’s surface. The paper describing the discovery is available in preprint and will be ...

Since they were first detected over four decades ago, unusually powerful x-ray emissions originating from the site of a dying star called the Helix Nebula have proved an enigma astronomers. Now, we ...

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

The rings of Saturn will temporarily “disappear” this weekend, though most stargazers will be unlikely to see it. The rings are not actually going away, but will be imperceptible ...

What we're witnessing may be more akin to the still-sizzling corpse of a planet burned at the stake. "The mysterious signal we've been seeing could be caused by the debris from the shattered ...