The James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) captured the star as it reaches the end of its life.

White dwarfs are the dense, slowly cooling remnants left behind when stars like the Sun exhaust their nuclear fuel. They no ...

Astronomers discover a 3-billion-year-old white dwarf, LSPM J0207+3331, actively accumulationplanetary material long after its star’s death, revealing ongoing dynamics in ancient stellar remnants.

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 ...

As the human race searches the cosmos for any sign of life, a ghostly pulse that is being emitted every 18 minutes has been ...

A strange white dwarf system is pulling a nearby planet apart, leaving scientists unsure how both objects are still orbiting together.

As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the ...

A couple months back, astronomers officially confirmed the existence of “Betelbuddy,” Betelgeuse’s long-suspected companion ...

Three billion years ago, a sun -like star reached the end of its life, throwing off its outer layers following its red giant ...

In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and collapse under its own gravity, becoming a white ...

Astronomers capture first clear image of a star’s double explosion, confirming a rare supernova theory with striking visual ...