New research reveals how the dying sun could destabilize the solar system, scattering giant planets and triggering chaos ...

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have found a rare disk of debris ...

Researchers have discovered a white dwarf surrounded by a debris disk with 2 separate rings. It offers a possible glimpse of ...

When a massive star explodes, it tends to leave chaos behind. Shocks sweep past, cosmic rays are accelerated and nearby gas ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of our solar system. It's the largest, brightest ...

Lying beyond Pluto, 2026 ED138 could be as large as 1,500 kilometers in diameter. Astronomers are still working to confirm ...

A team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope recently spotted something curious.

A team of astronomers from the University of Montreal has discovered a new potentially habitable exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star L 98-59, 35 light-years from Earth. This discovery means there ...

Astronomers have solved a 170-year-old planetary mystery in a nearby two-star system, discovering that a mysterious wobble ...

Astronomers now estimate there is at least one planet for every star in our galaxy. These worlds, called exoplanets, are planets that orbit stars outside our solar system. But new research from ...