Space scientists say they have located a planet killer capable of ripping worlds to pieces. Researchers believe they've found ...

After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The old star might have destroyed a nearby planet. Dating back to 1980, X ...

The Golden Globe winner's daughter Claudia Cowan confirmed the news of her mother's death on Easter Sunday, saying that, "Easter will have a deeper significance for me and my family" Julia Moore ...

When they reach the end of their long evolutions, smaller stars—those up to eight times as massive as our own sun—typically become white dwarfs. These ancient stars are incredibly dense.

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...