Using NASA’s IXPE, astronomers captured an unprecedented view of a white dwarf star actively feeding on material from a companion. The data revealed giant columns of ultra-hot gas shaped by the star’s ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. One of my nerd hobbies is astronomy. I love looking at the stars and imagining all the various worlds that are out there. Nebulae, whole ...

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Scientists found a “dwarf”-like creature with “long” fingers lurking near a temple in Thailand and discovered a new species, a study said. Google Street View ...

The detection of the molecule phosphine in a brown dwarf’s atmosphere may help astronomers in their search for life elsewhere in the Milky Way. By Katrina Miller On a brown dwarf dozens of light years ...

An orange, striated sphere hangs in space with stars behind it with a line from it drawn to a box that contains a space-filling model of phosphine where phosphorus is orange and hydrogen is white.

WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - 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 ...

Gamers fall into one of two categories: Those who have played Dwarf Fortress and those who haven’t. Within the former are another couple of subsets, those who couldn’t hack the complexity and graphics ...

New models suggest that Ceres, the asteroid belt's largest object, once had a radioactive core that could have sustained life in the dwarf planet's hidden subsurface ocean billions of years ago. When ...

A cosmic dance could be the future of the Milky Way as it tracks a course to collide with neighboring galaxies, a University of Queensland survey has found. The paper is published in the Monthly ...

Scientists found a hair “dwarf”-like creature in a hollow tree of a forest in Laos and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Sriranan, Songsangchote, Sihavong, Sayavongsa, Sidavong, ...

Ammonite was discovered using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, with follow-up confirmation from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Its orbit and size officially qualify it as a distant dwarf planet.