Astronomers have solved the mystery of a star that has baffled scientists for over a century, finding it is a cannibal white ...

He explained: “The white dwarf cannot consume all the mass being transferred from its hot star twin, so it creates this bright cosmic ring. “The speed at which this doomed stellar system is lurching ...

A study of more than 26,000 white dwarf stars has confirmed a long-predicted but elusive effect in these ultra-dense, dying stars: Hotter white dwarfs are slightly puffier than cooler ones, even when ...

When the two stars eventually smash into each other, the supernova explosion would be visible from Earth, even during daytime ...

Hubble has uncovered a rare ultra-massive white dwarf created in a violent star merger. Once thought to be ordinary, the star ...

Rochester may have missed out on the total solar eclipse in April 2024 due to clouds, but it has another chance to see a once ...

A strange cosmic object nicknamed “The Accident” has given scientists their first glimpse of a rare silicon-based molecule ...

We like to think that our solar system is eternal, but one day, its very epicenter will die. Our Sun, like all stars, had a ...

The findings reveal unusual chemical signatures and offer new insights into the behavior of novas beyond the Milky Way. In a first-ever near-infrared study of a recurrent nova beyond the Milky Way, ...

A new program has discovered chaos in a nearby planetary system, which could explain the existence of a phenomenon ...

Hot subdwarf stars represent a distinct class of compact, high-temperature objects that are predominantly core helium-burning and situated at the extreme end of the horizontal branch. These stars, ...