While the snow may be good news for folks wanting to look outside on Christmas morning to see a white-covered ground, it won't be positive for holiday travellers still on the move to get to their ...

Brown dwarfs blur the lines between stars and planets. Brown dwarfs are curious celestial bodies that appear to straddle the mass divide between stars and planets. Often referred to as "failed ...

Yes. One single snowflake is enough. The most recent official white Christmas in Britain was last year, with 11 percent of stations recording snow falling, though none reported snow actually lying ...

Using a catalog of 26,041 white dwarfs observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, astronomers have confirmed a long-predicted effect in these ancient ultradense stars. Stars that are not massive enough ...