"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

A team of astronomers recently uncovered an exceptionally small and faint dwarf galaxy located approximately 3 million ...

Why? A dwarf size will help the plant remain proportionate to its location (whether it's a container or in-ground), and it will stay at a size that won't overshadow or take over the rest of the ...

The brightest star in the nighttime sky, Sirius, or the Dog Star, greatly outshines its white dwarf companion, Sirius B. At 8.6 light-years away, Sirius B is the nearest known white dwarf star to ...

Although WDs have a relatively small size, comparable to that of Earth ... The object was initially classified as a pulsating white dwarf. However, subsequent studies have put the WD status ...

A surprising chemical difference between Pluto and Sedna, another dwarf planet in the distant ... "Since Gonggong is similar in size to Sedna, we believe methane must have escaped from it in ...