When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...

About 8,150 light-years from Earth, a white dwarf star named Gaia22ayj has intrigued astronomers. Its unusual behavior, ...

Astronomers have discovered the "missing link" connecting the death of sunlike stars to the birth of white dwarf stellar ...

The smoking gun of the creation of lithium in explosions on white dwarf stars may have been found, in a spike of gamma rays ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

Dark matter remains one of science's deepest mysteries. It makes up about 25% of our universe, yet scientists only observe ...

In October 1604, astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler spotted a new star in the sky and began tracking it. Over the course of several weeks, the star remained visible in the daytime and ...

Scientists have obtained photographic evidence of a double-detonation Type Ia supernova for the first time. This rare cosmic ...

Stock image: An illustration of a white dwarf star in space. iStock / Getty Images Plus. These unique white dwarfs exhibit different compositional "faces" as they spin, resembling one type of ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

According to a fairly new theory, white dwarfs can explode twice in a row in certain circumstances. For the first time, we ...