Hubble spots white dwarf star 'snacking' on chunk of Pluto-like object. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

Hubble, now 35 years old, is still the only telescope able to perform such observations. Researchers stress planning for a new ultraviolet observatory to continue this work. That future instrument ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the ...

Hubble has captured a dense, burned-out star in the act of consuming a Pluto-like object. Happening some 260 light years from Earth, the new observation, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

Illustration depicting the hot stellar merger that formed the ultra-massive white dwarf -WD 0525+526. (Dr. Snehalata Sahu/University of Warwick) (CN) — Astronomers at the University of Warwick have ...

The space telescope is peering into our own solar system's future. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Anyone hungry for the icy ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a "ultra-massive white dwarf that formed when a white dwarf merged with another star," according to the Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit ...