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

Radio astronomers have discovered an unusual phenomenon in recent years. They detected radio pulses from the Milky Way that last from seconds to minutes. These pulses differ from those produced by ...

When they reach the end of their long evolutions, smaller stars—those up to eight times as massive as our own sun—typically become white dwarfs. These ancient stars are incredibly dense.

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

About 650 light-years from here, in the constellation Aquarius, lies the planetary nebula Caldwell 63, commonly known as the ...

"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 ...

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 ...