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

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The year was 2015. After traveling billions and billions of miles through the Erebus, New Horizons encounters the boatman, and the somber lord of the departed. The spacecraft could have been called ...

In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted on the definition of a planet. Famously, Pluto no longer met the criteria and was demoted to a dwarf planet. Things have been a bit of a mess ...

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Hubble discovered a white dwarf planet devouring a Pluto-like object, revealing debris rich in water and nitrogen.

For decades, our solar system was thought to have nine planets, with Pluto considered the smallest and farthest. But in 2006, Pluto was officially reclassified as a dwarf planet by the International ...

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...

Some of us remember August 24, 2006, like it was yesterday. It was the day Pluto got booted from the exclusive “planets club.” I (Sara) was 11 years old, and my entire class began lunch break by ...