If you lived on one of Pluto’s moons Nix or Hydra, you’d have a hard time setting your alarm clock. That’s because you could not know for sure when, or even in which direction, the sun would rise. A ...

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to view the ninth planet in our solar system, astronomers discovered Pluto may have not one, but three moons. If confirmed, the discovery of the two new moons could ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto-like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque snack.

In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA's Hubble Space Telescope could identify that ...

Hubble spots white dwarf star 'snacking' on chunk of Pluto-like object. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a ...

Astronomers have found that a relatively close white dwarf – the remaining hot, dense core of a dead star – is having a planetary snack. An international team of researchers, led by the University of ...

Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an extraordinary event playing out just 260 light-years from Earth: a dense, burned-out star known as a white dwarf is in the process of devouring a fragment ...

NASA has published the most detailed images of the planet Pluto in the history of astronomy, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Compared with pictures taken in 1995, the newer set of pictures shows ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the ...

In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope could identify that ...