Niobium, a heavy metal never before found in a white dwarf, shows up in the atmosphere of HS 0209+0832 at more than 1,000 ...

The “second-generation” world, predicted from telescope data, could be the first known planet of its kind, and it may shed ...

For more than a quarter century, unidentified chemical signatures from a white dwarf star have laid dormant in the archive of ...

Sometimes the best discoveries are hiding in old data. By reviewing archival records from the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers spotted a strange chemical signature around a white dwarf star named ...

Researchers using archival data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reported on October 5, 2026, in Nature Astronomy that the ...

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

When yellow dwarf stars like our sun die, they swell to an enormous size and destroy their inner planets by either crushing ...

Newswise — Cambridge, MA (December 23, 2025)— Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young star. For the first time in ...

This artistic impression shows the collision of two planetesimals in the young, evolving planetary system of Fomalhaut. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the dramatic aftermath of two violent ...

But the colour is the only way planet HD 189733b resembles the Earth, as the Telegraph reports. The planet is a gas giant, with temperatures reaching over 1,000C (1832F). It also rains glass sideways ...