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 ...

A team of astronomers has identified a new polar cataclysmic variable, a rare type of binary star system featuring a highly ...

"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 ...

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.

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 ...

They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would offer a warmer climate than one orbiting a main sequence star. Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy ...

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 ...

Co-author Martin Guerrero from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia told Phys.org that debris from the shattered planet ...

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 ...