Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located about 145 ...
The newly discovered world is called GJ 251c and it is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away.
Three billion years ago, a sun -like star reached the end of its life, throwing off its outer layers following its red giant ...
For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your place in the universe feel both ordinary and strange.
Scientists found 13 heavy chemical elements polluting the atmosphere of the star named LSPM J0207+3331, which is located ...
Astronomers have found GJ 251 c, a rocky planet. It is a super-Earth located only 18 light-years away. This planet is in its ...
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What's a white dwarf star

A strange white dwarf system is pulling a nearby planet apart, leaving scientists unsure how both objects are still orbiting together.
In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and collapse under its own gravity, becoming a white ...
Scientists found two Earth-sized planets and a third candidate orbiting a nearby double star system, TOI-2267.
What can white dwarf stars eating their own planets teach astronomers about planetary and solar system formation and ...
V Sagittae’s violent mass transfer hints at an imminent nova—and a future supernova visible from Earth. Binary star systems are fairly common in the universe, as are pairs where one star is a compact ...
An international team of astronomers have employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a nearby M-dwarf star ...