Astronomers spot two stars the size of Earth headed toward a violent explosion - This discovery offers a glimpse into the ...

The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

Scientists have discovered two rare white dwarfs—which are among the dimmest stars in the universe—that feature changes in their surface composition caused by magnetic fields. This brings the ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star ...

A pair of rare, compact white dwarf stars that are set to collide in about 23 billion years have been spotted by researchers at the University of Warwick. After converging, the binary star system ...

Astronomers have spotted two huge white dwarf stars which they say are destined to explode together in a supernova. This is because of how close together the stars are, and it's the first time ...

T Corona Borealis is a binary star system around 3,000 light-years away in the constellation Corona Borealis, the “Northern Crown.” It consists of a white dwarf star (a star that’s exhausted ...

Stargazers watched the skies with bated breath on Thursday night in hopes that T Coronae Borealis, a system consisting of a hot, red giant star and a cool, white dwarf star about 3,000 light-years ...

How do you measure the mass of a star? Well, according to famed cosmologist Albert Einstein, you can try to solve this problem by looking at the subtle bending of starlight as it encounters the ...

"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 ...