Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

Hubble, now 35 years old, is still the only telescope able to perform such observations. Researchers stress planning for a new ultraviolet observatory to continue this work. That future instrument ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a "ultra-massive white dwarf that formed when a white dwarf ...

Illustration depicting the hot stellar merger that formed the ultra-massive white dwarf -WD 0525+526. (Dr. Snehalata Sahu/University of Warwick) (CN) — Astronomers at the University of Warwick have ...

Hubble has captured a dense, burned-out star in the act of consuming a Pluto-like object. Happening some 260 light years from Earth, the new observation, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A massive, smoldering stellar remnant located in Earth’s cosmic ...

Nature can get brutal. On a cosmic scale, things get even more destructive—leaving behind carnage made of stellar dust the size of an entire planet. Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...

In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope could identify that ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope and an array of other instruments, astronomers have probed supernova wreckage in the Large ...