Astronomers from Poland and Germany have performed photometric and spectroscopic observations of a blue variable object ...

After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The ...

"The diversity of ways that white dwarf stars can blow up is much greater than previously expected." There are a lot of ways ...

A white dwarf, or dying star, caused the destruction of a Jupiter-sized planet that is only around 650 light years away from ...

Richard Livitski Seal Beach, California Our Sun will become a white dwarf in about 7 billion years. At that point, it will no longer produce energy through nuclear fusion, having exhausted its ...

When they reach the end of their long evolutions, smaller stars—those up to eight times as massive as our own sun—typically become white dwarfs. These ancient stars are incredibly dense.

Of three possible explanations, one is a white dwarf star caught in the black hole’s gravity. Scientists will monitor the phenomenon to find out for sure, and 2035’s LISA antenna will verify.

Could white dwarf stars host habitable exoplanets that might support life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal | Space ...

The sun will end its life as a white dwarf. As a white dwarf, it is essentially a dead star that has exhausted all of the nuclear fuel that it is capable of burning. As a white dwarf, it will ...

Disney has released a couple of new teasers for the upcoming live-action Snow White movie, and it gives us a first look at all seven of the "Dwarfs" alongside Rachel Zegler's ...

Exploding white dwarfs observed by the Palomar 48 inch telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California. | Credit: Mickael Rigault and the Palomar Observatory/Caltech. There are a lot of ways ...