Brown dwarfs: too small to be stars, too big to be planets. Only discovered in the 1990s, these in-between cosmic objects aren't big enough to burn as hot and bright as a true star, instead usually ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to the ...

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 ...

Researchers from The University of Western Australia node at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have uncovered an immense structure, which spans an astonishing 185,000 light ...

Gamers fall into one of two categories: Those who have played Dwarf Fortress and those who haven’t. Within the former are another couple of subsets, those who couldn’t hack the complexity and graphics ...

Autumn Kiss is the newest addition to the Encore Azalea collection. Available to growers now and consumers in spring 2026, Autumn Kiss marks the 37th variety in the Encore Azalea collection. It ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have detected gas on the distant dwarf planet, Makemake. Credit: NASA / ESA / Southwest Research Institute / A. Parker illustration Scientists have ...

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 ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Dwarf planet Ceres now appears less like a dead rock and more like a world that may have briefly brimmed with potential for life Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ...