This image of the Helix Nebula, released on March 4, 2025, shows a potentially destructive white dwarf at the nebula's center ...

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

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

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into the dusty shroud of a young nebula alight with star formation on the hunt for "failed star" brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs are stellar ...

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

This planetary nebula is the remains of a star similar to the sun ... of gravitational interactions with other planets in this system. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches ...

We may now know where they’re coming from – the death throes of a planet being torn to shreds and raining down on the star. The Helix Nebula is an eye-catching sight in the sky – and not ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a ...

Using today's most powerful X-ray missions, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's (European Space ... case of a planet seen to be destroyed by the central star in a planetary nebula." ...

New data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory telescope and the European Space ... the first case of a planet seen to be destroyed by the central star in a planetary nebula," the CXC explained.