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Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...

Researchers at McGill University and collaborating institutions have mapped the atmospheric features of a planetary-mass ...

Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located about 145 ...

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Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants.

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A 3-billion-year-old white dwarf, the core of a dead star, consumed an exoplanet from its former planetary system. Credit: NASA / ESA / Joseph Olmsted illustration A dead star core about 145 ...