Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a "ultra-massive white dwarf that formed when a white dwarf ...

For the first time, astronomers have discovered evidence for a giant planet orbiting a tiny, dead white dwarf star. And, surprisingly, the Neptune-sized planet is more than four times the diameter of ...

The future of yellow dwarf stars, like our sun, is determined almost entirely by their mass. The most massive stars, about eight to 12 times heftier than the sun, can explode as supernovae, leading to ...

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Stephen Colbert wonders why 'The Late Show' was canceled if Paramount has $108 billion to offer for Warner Bros. Mother of ...

In about 7 billion years our sun will become a white dwarf, the name for a star that depleted its nuclear fuel and only shines as a remnant of what it once was. No star is ever born as a white dwarf ...

White dwarfs, the compact remnants of low- to intermediate-mass stars, offer a unique window into the fate of planetary systems. Recent observational and theoretical work has revealed that many white ...

Astronomers have discovered the smallest but most massive white dwarf ever found. The tiny star is only the size of our Moon, but packs in more mass than the Sun, meaning it’s approaching the ...

Artist’s impression of the long-period transient J1634+44, revealed to be a white dwarf with a companion. Credits: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/P. Vosteen. LOFAR is a low-frequency radio astronomy array that ...

In their death throes, roughly 97 percent of all stars become a smoldering stellar zombie called a white dwarf, one of the densest objects in the cosmos. A newly discovered white dwarf is being hailed ...

Astronomers have spotted a white dwarf that miraculously survived its own thermonuclear detonation, raising questions over how and why these stars create supernovas. A white dwarf is the evolutionary ...

In general, it's very difficult to have a star transform into a white dwarf and wind up with a planet very close in orbit around it without that planet being destroyed by a tidal disruption event. A ...