Nova explosions occur in binary star systems in which a white dwarf—the dense remnant of a dead star—continually siphons ...

A shockingly bright Nova explosion occurred right on cue, but its brilliance and strange chemical signature baffled ...

Late November would be the worst time for the nova to pop, when the Sun lies between us and the star. The situation only ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Exploding white dwarfs observed by the Palomar 48 inch telescope at the Palomar Observatory ...

When the white dwarf steals enough stellar material from its red giant companion, it ignites a brief flash of nuclear fusion on its surface, triggering what is known as a nova outburst.

Despite having recently officially ended its science operations in January, Gaia, one of the most prolific star explorers ...

An international team of astronomers led by scientists from the Netherlands has shown that a white dwarf and a red dwarf ...

Researchers believe they've found evidence that a white dwarf may have torn a Jupiter-sized planet apart. A white dwarf is the stellar core left behind after a dying star has exhausted its nuclear ...

They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would offer a warmer climate than one orbiting a main sequence star. Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy ...

Astronomers uncover extremely hot and violent eruption from first ever near-infrared analysis of a recurrent nova outside of the Milky Way Galaxy Almost all novae discovered to-date have been ...

"The diversity of ways that white dwarf stars can blow up is much greater than previously expected." There are a lot of ways for dead stars to blow their tops. Astronomers discovered this ...