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

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

Since the 1980s, a strange X-ray emission has puzzled astronomers. At the heart of the Helix Nebula, a dying star may have destroyed a neighboring planet, revealing a rare and ...

A 40-year-old space enigma has been unraveled: a white dwarf star at the center of the Helix Nebula has been annihilating a nearby planet, triggering strange X-ray radiation, which unveiled the star's ...

As the great detective said, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the ...

as the death knell from a planet that was destroyed by the white dwarf in the Helix Nebula." An artist's impression of a planet being torn apart by the gravitational forces of a white dwarf star.

“If, through similar observations of this and other white dwarfs, we can better distinguish the signals of the star from the infalling planet, then we might be able to tease out information ...

A medal awarded to Luke Skywalker after he destroyed the Death Star ... efforts of rebels finding the plans for the Death Star, Luke blows up the planet-destroying weapon, which is later rebuilt ...

It is this detail that points to the potential presence of a planet extremely close to the star, one that could have even been destroyed by the white dwarf. And that's exactly what a new study ...

The signal, which scientists have been working to untangle for more than 40 years, is thought to be the "death knell ... first case of a planet destroyed by the central star in a planetary ...