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NASA has finally peered into the heart of a white dwarf system in a way astronomers have been chasing for decades, turning a ...

American Museum of Natural History Astronomer Dr. Jackie Faherty joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...

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In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...

Astronomers have observed a white dwarf – a highly compact Earth-sized stellar ember – that is creating a colorful shockwave ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

Carnegie’s Luke Bouma shared groundbreaking research at the American Astronomical Society meeting, demonstrating that large ...

The question of life on other worlds has become a serious area of research, writes science reporter Ivan Semeniuk. Over the ...

"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...

Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...