It started, as many cosmic enigmas do, with a dim dot of light on a Hubble Space Telescope photo the sort that professional astronomers are used to seeing, but never expect to upend discussion of the ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf – a highly compact stellar ember – that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to the dwarf planet Pluto, a finding with ...

Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto -like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque ...

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

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered the remains of a frozen, Pluto-like world being devoured by a ...

NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has detected a white dwarf star that consumed fragments of a Pluto-like object. Space experts say the discovery provides new insights into how planetary systems ...

By studying the chemical composition of an odd, dying star, astronomers discovered that it had been feasting on what used to ...

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

Pluto might be small and distant, but it keeps surprising scientists. After the New Horizons spacecraft zipped past it in 2015, we got our first real look at its icy landscape and unexpectedly active ...

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

On Episode 176 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik are joined by Alan Stern to talk about what's next in deep space exploration.