WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to the dwarf planet ...

Phosphorus is one of six key elements necessary for life on Earth. When combined with hydrogen, phosphorus forms the molecule phosphine (PH 3), an explosive, highly toxic gas. Found in the atmospheres ...

The detection of the molecule phosphine in a brown dwarf’s atmosphere may help astronomers in their search for life elsewhere in the Milky Way. By Katrina Miller On a brown dwarf dozens of light years ...

Scientists found a “dwarf”-like creature with “long” fingers lurking near a temple in Thailand and discovered a new species, a study said. Google Street View ...

More than 2 billion kilometers farther from the sun than Pluto, a frigid world named Makemake sports the most distant gas ever seen in our solar system, new observations reveal. “By surprise, we found ...

Astronomers from South Africa have conducted multi-band observations of a nearby dwarf irregular galaxy known as UGCA 320. Results of the observational campaign, recently published on the arXiv ...

New renderings of President Donald Trump’s $200 million dream ballroom have provided new insight into what will soon occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The ballroom, now expected to be nearly 125,000 ...

President Trump’s upcoming ballroom will be bigger than the White House. Recent renderings obtained by CBS News show that the ballroom—which Trump has been obsessing over for some time now—shows a ...

As nighttime settled over the rainforest of northeastern Peru, a "dwarf"-like mammal moved through the tree branches and began climbing across an artificial bridge. Its passage set off a nearby trail ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered phosphine in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf — the same chemical that stoked controversy following claims that it had been detected on Venus and ...