Since the 1980s, a strange X-ray emission has puzzled astronomers. At the heart of the Helix Nebula, a dying star may have ...

After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The ...

The X-ray signal from WD 2226-210 is similar to the X-ray emissions of two other white dwarfs that do not sit within cocoons ...

Stunning James Webb Space Telescope images reveal new details about a pair of mysterious infrared rings around planetary ...

A not-so-distant white dwarf named WD 2226-210 has been on our radar since the 1980s for releasing X-rays, now we may know ...

A decades-old astronomical mystery has finally been solved—an enigmatic X-ray signal emanating from deep space turns out to ...

Astronomers have detected mysterious X-ray signals coming from a nearby white dwarf star for more than 40 years. We may now ...

About 650 light-years from here, in the constellation Aquarius, lies the planetary nebula Caldwell 63, commonly known as the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have observed enigmatic rings in the planetary nebula NGC 1514, ...

"We might have finally found the cause of a mystery that's lasted over 40 years," said researcher Sandino Estrada-Dorado.

A white dwarf, or dying star, caused the destruction of a Jupiter-sized planet that is only around 650 light years away from ...

Co-author Martin Guerrero from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia told Phys.org that debris from the shattered planet ...