The findings suggest that there are many more targets of opportunity for locating potentially habitable worlds across our ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

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

Astronomers have discovered a rare pair of white dwarfs destined to explode in a spectacular supernova in Earth’s cosmic ...

A pair of circling white dwarf stars located on our "cosmic doorstep" are doomed to explode in a rare, quadruple supernova ...

Astronomers have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarfs are the cause of most type 1a supernova explosions. While the pair are in close orbit, the heavier of the two theoretically accumulates ...

For many years it was believed that the surface of most, if not all, white dwarfs was made up primarily ... that most are comparable in mass to the sun, with a volume roughly equal to that of ...

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear ...

White dwarfs represent the final stage of evolution for stars up to eight times the mass of our sun. After exhausting their hydrogen fuel, these stars collapse under their own gravity, shedding ...

Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a supernova, appearing ...

That isn't the case with white dwarfs, which form when stars like the sun run out of fuel for nuclear fusion, shedding their outer layers as their cores collapse and forming a cooling stellar ember.