Scientists have been receiving X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula for decades, but now they believe it may hide a horrifying ...

For over 40 years, astronomers have been puzzled by strange X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf. Now, they may ...

Since the 1980s, a strange X-ray emission has puzzled astronomers. At the heart of the Helix Nebula, a dying star may have ...

"We might have finally found the cause of a mystery that's lasted over 40 years," said researcher Sandino Estrada-Dorado.

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 ...

A decades-old cosmic mystery may finally be solved. Scientists now suspect that the strange X-ray glow from a distant white ...

Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula.

The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust that fuels new star formation. It lacks elements ...

X-ray missions to better understand the Universe have been going on for decades now, and as soon as our species has begun looking at the stars this way, we've been flooded with mysteries.

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Orion Nebula is a giant gas cloud 1,344 light years away. It's also a cosmic factory for producing new stars. Astronomers recently observed over 900 small ...