Released on March 4, 2025, the composite photo shows a potentially destructive white dwarf at its center. It turns out this ...

The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion years ...

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear ...

This artist’s impression shows a planet (left) that has approached too close to a white dwarf (right) and been torn apart by ...

"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." A pair of rare, compact white dwarf stars that are set to collide in about 23 ...

Dr Ingrid Pelisoli. Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick and co-author, stated to Space.com that the proximity of this system suggests similar pairs might not be uncommon. Type 1a ...

When they reach the end of their long evolutions, smaller stars—those up to eight times as massive as our own sun—typically become white dwarfs. These ancient stars are incredibly dense.

Hubble Space Telescope image of the white dwarf ... star. By measuring that light deflection, you could, in theory at least, weigh out the mass of the target star. SEE ALSO: Gorgeous new Hubble ...

Astronomers have detected mysterious X-ray signals coming from a nearby white dwarf star for more than 40 years. We may now know where they’re coming from – the death throes of a planet being ...

Now, astronomers have zeroed in on the surprising origin of the unusual radio pulses: a dead star, called a white dwarf, that is closely orbiting a small, cool red dwarf star. Red dwarfs are the ...