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

Astronomers may have identified the first second-generation planet candidate around a white dwarf a possible Jupiter-sized ...

Astronomers have observed a stellar vampire feeding on a 'failed star' brown dwarf companion for the first time, and this ...

Like Earth, most planetary bodies circle their star in stable, detached orbits. These companionable systems can suddenly ...

Researchers have identified two dwarf giraffes, the first such animals known to science. During routine surveys of endangered, troubled giraffe populations by the conservation group Giraffe ...

Astronomers have caught a low-mass red dwarf slowly stripping material from a brown dwarf about 300 light-years away, ...

As far as fairytales go, dwarfs can be Bashful, Sleepy, Grumpy or Dopey. But in space, dwarfs might be better called Hungry, ...

Astronomers have found what may be the first second-generation planet around a white dwarf, a Jupiter-sized gas giant that ...

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 ...

Using the Subaru Telescope's wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The newly discovered structure exhibits ...

Scientists detected the very first exoplanets around a pulsar — a type of rapidly rotating dead star — and because pulsars ...

Astronomers have identified a nearby system in which a low-mass star is steadily stripping material from a brown dwarf, ...