Utilizing the stellar evolution code named Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA), Chinese astronomers have ...

Why would one of the night sky’s best-known stars shine in X-rays far beyond what a massive star should produce? Gamma ...

Visible without a telescope, γ Cassiopeiae has stood out for decades because it behaves unlike an ordinary massive star. Its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of an early stage of an icy body being torn apart by the intense gravity of a white dwarf By Will Dunham WASHINGTON ...

Hubble spots white dwarf star 'snacking' on chunk of Pluto-like object. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a ...

The future of yellow dwarf stars, like our sun, is determined almost entirely by their mass. The most massive stars, about eight to 12 times heftier than the sun, can explode as supernovae, leading to ...

Astronomers have found a remarkable pair of stars that may finally prove a long-debated theory. Described in the journal Nature Astronomy, this duo offers the strongest evidence yet that type 1a ...

In an ancient star system expected to be stable and dormant, scientists found a 3 billion-year-old white dwarf star still tearing apart massive quantities of rock. “The rate we’ve seen rock consumed ...

In exoplanetary science, white dwarfs are usually only an afterthought. Most extrasolar planet hunters are too busy looking for an Earth 2.0 to give these hyper-dense stellar remnants much ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact Earth-sized stellar ember - that is creating a colorful shockwave as it moves through space, ...

White dwarfs, the compact remnants of low- to intermediate-mass stars, offer a unique window into the fate of planetary systems. Recent observational and theoretical work has revealed that many white ...

Artist’s impression of the long-period transient J1634+44, revealed to be a white dwarf with a companion. Credits: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/P. Vosteen. LOFAR is a low-frequency radio astronomy array that ...