The word “planet” came from the ancient Greek words that mean “wandering star.” That makes sense, because for thousands of years, people have watched planets change position in the night sky – unlike ...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defined a dwarf planet in 2006 as a celestial body that orbits the Sun, is round in shape, but has not cleared its orbital neighborhood of objects of ...

Our solar system is much like a trail of microcosmic breadcrumbs: Follow the molecular bits as far back as they go, and you'll learn a thing or two about where many of our planets and other celestial ...

Astronomers have traced the origin of a colossal white dwarf to a catastrophic crash between two dead stars, turning a quiet ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Exploding white dwarfs observed by the Palomar 48 inch telescope at the Palomar Observatory in ...

Sirius A and B, a normal (Sun-like) star and a white dwarf star in a binary system. Many such systems like this are known to exist, and the accretion of matter from the star onto the white dwarf is ...

This illustration shows the rapidly rotating, highly magnetized white dwarf with the smallest radius ever found, with Earth's moon shown nearby for a size comparison. With a radius of ~2,140 km, just ...

If you’ve ever considered getting a small pet that’s not a cat or dog, you may have considered a rabbit. Rabbits are small, fluffy, and generally easy to care for. Small rabbits, like Netherland Dwarf ...

A Florida legislator sparked controversy in 2011 when he filed a bill to legalize dwarf tossing in the state, according to NPR. State Representative Ritch Workman, a Republican from Melbourne, ...

Everyone’s heard of betta fish, but no one talks about their cousin, the dwarf gourami. These relatives of the betta fish are beautiful, easy to care for, and the smallest of their kind. Gourami is a ...