White dwarfs are the compact remnants of stars that have stopped nuclear burning, a fate that will eventually befall our sun.

A new study from Kyoto University has shown that white dwarfs, can be significantly hotter than expected when locked in tight ...

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...

In the hunt for extraterrestrial life, we usually look for planets orbiting sun-like stars and icy moons. But there is ...

Phobos is the larger and innermost of Mars' two moons, and it's a fascinating celestial body. It's small, irregularly shaped, and orbiting just about 6,000 kilometers above the surface of the Red ...

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