A total of four small, rocky exoplanets were found circling Barnard’s Star, a red dwarf with a mass about one-sixth […] ...

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Haumea is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, a region of icy worlds beyond Neptune's orbit. It's one of the fastest-spinning objects in our solar system. Quaoar is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ...

Meyer (University of Michigan) There's a class of objects in the cosmos that are neither stars, nor are they quite planets. And with this new research, scientists have improved our understanding ...

Racing Bulls technical director Jody Egginton has announced that he is to take up a new role as engineering director at Red Bull Advanced Technologies. Egginton joined Racing Bulls (then Toro ...

The King has said restoring the “disrupted harmony of our entire planet” is the most “important” task facing humanity, in his Commonwealth Day message. Charles’s statement was published before the ...

What is a white dwarf, and why are space scientists so excited by the latest discovery? It’s been dubbed a possible ‘planet killer’, but how could a dying star cause havoc in the solar system?

Helix Nebula’s X-ray emissions linked to planetary destruction White dwarf WD 2226-210 may be accreting planetary debris Researchers suggest a Jupiter-like planet was torn apart ...

Astronomers have traced decades-old X-ray emissions from the Helix Nebula to a white dwarf possibly consuming planetary debris. Reports suggest a Jupiter-like planet may have been torn apart by ...

They then processed the rocks with a specialised grinder to match the nanometre-sized grains found on the planet and characterised them using x-ray diffraction and reflectance spectroscopy. By ...

A planet killer capable of ripping them to pieces has been discovered, say space scientists. Researchers believe they've found evidence that a white dwarf may have torn a Jupiter-sized planet apart.

Red Bull technical director Pierre Waché has opened up on how his team have targeted rectifying some of the issues with a “peaky” RB20 for this year’s machine. The new Red Bull RB21 got off ...