This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

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

Previous research also indicated that Earth looks down the axis of this system, known as Wolf-Rayet 104, raising concerns ...

Recent research has uncovered what appears to be the grizzly death of an exoplanet in the ... be the final remnants of what was once a planet in the star's orbit. Scientists believe that a Jupiter ...

Researchers believe they've found evidence that a white dwarf may have torn a Jupiter-sized planet apart. A white dwarf is the stellar core left behind after a dying star has exhausted its nuclear ...

The so-called "Death Star," which is also famed for looking like a glowing pinwheel, has caused a lot of lost sleep among astronomers. But now they — and the entire planet — may finally breathe a sigh ...

as the death knell from a planet that was destroyed by the white dwarf in the Helix Nebula." An artist's impression of a planet being torn apart by the gravitational forces of a white dwarf star.