A repeating radio burst every 2 hours from Ursa Major reveals a unique white dwarf–red dwarf system, shaking up theories in ...

In this system, a white dwarf and red dwarf orbit each other so closely that their magnetic fields 'bump together' to create a long radio pulse.

The discovery of a new cosmic object signaling Earth is causing a firestorm at NASA, as scientists don't know how to explain ...

The reactor under construction at Commonwealth Fusion Systems in Devens, Mass., is one of at least 43 private-industry ...

Astronomers have found a remarkable pair of stars that may finally prove a long-debated theory. Described in the journal ...

Astronomers have discovered the "missing link" connecting the death of sunlike stars to the birth of white dwarf stellar ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to determine the mass of white dwarf star LAWD 37. It is "56 percent the mass of our ...

The future of yellow dwarf stars, like our sun, is determined almost entirely by their mass. The most massive stars, about eight to 12 times heftier than the sun, can explode as supernovae ...

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