Hubble, now 35 years old, is still the only telescope able to perform such observations. Researchers stress planning for a new ultraviolet observatory to continue this work. That future instrument ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

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 ...

Illustration depicting the hot stellar merger that formed the ultra-massive white dwarf -WD 0525+526. (Dr. Snehalata Sahu/University of Warwick) (CN) — Astronomers at the University of Warwick have ...

A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray telescope, Hubble and more has narrowed down its age to ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a "ultra-massive white dwarf that formed when a white dwarf merged with another star," according to the Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit ...

Hubble has captured a dense, burned-out star in the act of consuming a Pluto-like object. Happening some 260 light years from Earth, the new observation, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

The name 'blue lurker' might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open star ...