A newly discovered dwarf planet could hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of our solar system’s outer reaches — but what could it mean for humanity's future in space? As shutdown becomes 2nd ...

The DWARFLAB DWARF 3 is a great imaging tool for beginner astrophotographers who want to skip the traditional astrophotography camera and go straight for an affordable smart telescope. Why you can ...

Phosphorus is one of six key elements necessary for life on Earth. When combined with hydrogen, phosphorus forms the molecule phosphine (PH 3), an explosive, highly toxic gas. Found in the atmospheres ...

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 ...

University of Warwick astronomers have uncovered the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being consumed by a white dwarf star outside our solar system. In our solar system, ...

More than 2 billion kilometers farther from the sun than Pluto, a frigid world named Makemake sports the most distant gas ever seen in our solar system, new observations reveal. “By surprise, we found ...

Related video: Visualisation of two dwarf stars locked together in a dance of mutual gravitation Scientists have discovered a “greedy” white dwarf star that is “going thermonuclear” as it devours its ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a cosmic rarity: an ultra-massive white dwarf star resulting from a white dwarf merging with another star, rather than through the evolution of a ...

The dwarf planet Ceres, the only dwarf planet in the main asteroid belt, might have once been hospitable for life, according to a recent study. NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA Ceres, the ...

Red Dwarf co-creator Doug Naylor has said that UKTV scrapped a new episode of the beloved sci-fi comedy last year. He added: "The cast were all on board and I was told to start writing. Several months ...

Scientists found a “dwarf”-like creature sleeping on a tree near a hotel in Madagascar and discovered a new species, a study said. Screengrab from Anjajavy le lodge’s Facebook video As darkness ...

Patiala: Farmers across several sub-mountainous districts of Punjab are grappling with a resurgence of the Southern Rice Black-streaked Dwarf Virus (SRBSDV), locally known as the Fiji or dwarf virus.