Astronomers have spotted another never-before-seen "nova" blaze to life in the night sky. This may be the first time that ...

In an extraordinary celestial coincidence, two "new stars"-scientifically known as novae-are currently visible to the naked ...

A cataclysmic variable star isn’t technically a single object. Instead, it’s a compact binary system composed of a white ...

Previously described as playing astronomical "spot the difference," Kilonova Seekers asks the public to compare the latest ...

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 ...

Sky watchers around the world have a new star to hunt for in the night sky, thanks to a recently detected explosion in our ...

After the nova, the white dwarf starts the process over again, repeating this cycle once every 80 years. T CrB last exploded in 1946 and is expected to explode again sometime between February and ...

The First Catalog of Candidate White Dwarf–Main-sequence Binaries in Open Star Clusters: A New Window into Common Envelope Evolution. The Astrophysical Journal , 2024; 976 (1): 102 DOI: 10.3847 ...

All the latest science news on white dwarf star from Phys.org. Find the latest news, advancements, ... one of the most prolific star explorers ever, is still providing new scientific insights.

A distant star has a dead star companion lurking in its vicinity that could be a monster-massive white dwarf, raising the question: how has it avoided being devoured by this cosmic zombie?

New theory explains why white dwarf stars can cheat death. Institute for Advanced Study. Journal Nature DOI 10.1038/s41586-024-07102-y. Keywords ...

In a paper published today in Nature, scholars from the Institute for Advanced Study; the University of Victoria, Canada; and the University of Warwick, U.K., have proposed a new theory that explains ...