After the sun finally dies, billions of years in the future, Earth too will meet a grisly end. There are several ways that our home planet may be destroyed after the sun dies, possibly being ...

NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory has helped track down the origin of a mysterious X-ray signal emanating from deep space. The signal, which scientists have been working to untangle for more than ...

New data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory telescope and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton satellite has shown that a planet may have been destroyed by a white dwarf—one of the dimmest ...

This image of the Helix Nebula, released on March 4, 2025, shows a potentially destructive white dwarf at the nebula's center; this star may have destroyed a planet. This has never been seen ...

Helix is a planetary nebula in the constellation Aquarius. It has been discovered in the early 1800s, and it is located roughly 650 light-years from our own planet.

In 2008, chunks of space rock crashed in the deserts of Sudan. Diamonds discovered inside one of the recovered meteorites may have come from a destroyed planet that orbited our sun billions of ...