"What Hubble is showing us in this white dwarf system is something we haven’t seen before," said astronomer Jamie Williams.

Niobium, a heavy metal never before found in a white dwarf, shows up in the atmosphere of HS 0209+0832 at more than 1,000 ...

For more than a quarter century, unidentified chemical signatures from a white dwarf star have laid dormant in the archive of ...

Sometimes the best discoveries are hiding in old data. By reviewing archival records from the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers spotted a strange chemical signature around a white dwarf star named ...

Recent research investigates the role of primordial magnetic fields in the discrepancy of the Hubble constant values.

How do professional astronomers book time on JWST or Hubble? Frank CoulterTauranga, New Zealand The opportunity to use either the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) or James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as ...

The observations that American astronomer Edwin Hubble made on the night of October 5-6, 1923 and one that he had made the ...

The Roman telescope is NASA’s newest space observatory. Every 10 months, it will get the equivalent of about 1000 years' worth of Hubble observations. Will it find the answers to our questions about ...

A dead star’s wreckage may be the birthplace of a new planet. The existence of second-generation planets was predicted ...

Scientists detected the very first exoplanets around a pulsar — a type of rapidly rotating dead star — and because pulsars ...

Niobium-rich material raining onto the white dwarf HS 0209+0832 suggests a gas giant formed from the star's own ejected ...

Astronomers say they have have detected a radio emission from Beta Pictoris b, an exoplanet 63 light-years from Earth, ...