Astronomers have discovered an unusual blue-tinted white dwarf star with two distinct "faces": one side is hydrogen and the other side is helium, according to a new paper published in the journal ...

Astronomers have made a first-of-its-kind discovery — a white dwarf star with two completely different faces. White dwarfs are burnt remains of dead stars. Our sun will become a white dwarf in ...

"The diversity of ways that white dwarf stars can blow up is much greater than previously expected." There are a lot of ways for dead stars to blow their tops. Astronomers discovered this ...

Brown dwarf stars, white dwarf stars, and even neutron stars aren’t actually stars, while red dwarf stars, yellow dwarfs (like our Sun), and all giant stars do turn out to be stars. Here’s ...

Based on time-series photometry from three different telescopes, an international team of astronomers has performed a ...

"You shouldn't see any metals on the surface of a white dwarf unless the white dwarf is actively eating something." Astronomers may have finally solved the mystery of how superdense dead stars ...

Astronomers have found a rare white dwarf star about 104 light-years away whose core appears to be transforming into an ultra-dense “cosmic diamond.” When some stars, such as the Sun ...

The star—named WD 0816-310—is a white dwarf star situated around 63 light years away and was spotted with a bizarre scar stretching across its surface by the European Southern Observatory's ...

Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star. By Jonathan O’Callaghan In six billion years the sun ...

There are a lot of ways for dead stars to blow their tops. Astronomers discovered this explosive diversity when they assessed ...