Where it lives: Tropical and temperate waters around the world. What it eats: Deep-sea squid, octopuses, crustaceans and fish. Dwarf sperm whales have an unusual way to protect themselves if they come ...

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NASA’s IXPE captures the first X-ray polarization data from a white dwarf system, detailing observations of EX Hydrae and ...

TRAPPIST-1, a red dwarf star 39 light-years away from us, has seven Earth-size planets orbiting it. It's likely that all of these planets are rocky and may possibly harbor liquid water. Red dwarf ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers may have discovered the smallest and heaviest white dwarf star ever seen, a ...

In a universe full of planets, 2007 OR10 is something special. It’s big, just slightly smaller than the size of Pluto. And it’s close, within our very own solar system. So how did it still manage to ...

WASHINGTON, June 30 – In their death throes, roughly 97 percent o, af all stars become a smoldering stellar zombie called a white dwarf, one of the densest objects in the cosmos. A newly discovered ...

Observations of a brown dwarf suggest Earth-size planets can form around these "failed" stars, according to new research. Astronomers found evidence of tiny solid grains in a disk surrounding ISO-Oph ...

WASHINGTON, June 30 (Reuters) - In their death throes, roughly 97% of all stars become a smoldering stellar zombie called a white dwarf, one of the densest objects in the cosmos. A newly discovered ...