Could an ocean – likely needed to sustain life – even survive on a planet orbiting close to a dead star? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...
Astronomers have discovered the smallest and most massive white dwarf ever seen. The smoldering cinder, which formed when two less massive white dwarfs merged, is heavy, “packing a mass greater than ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. White dwarfs, the leftover cores of sunlike stars, are incredibly common in the universe. Many of ...
(THE CONVERSATION) The Sun will someday die. This will happen when it runs out of hydrogen fuel in its core and can no longer produce energy through nuclear fusion as it does now. The death of the Sun ...