A cataclysmic variable star isn’t technically a single object. Instead, it’s a compact binary system composed of a white ...

Previously described as playing astronomical "spot the difference," Kilonova Seekers asks the public to compare the latest ...

In an extraordinary celestial coincidence, two "new stars" —scientifically known as novae —are currently visible to the naked ...

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 ...

Bamboos are grasses, so one would think that conventional grass killers would be up to the task. But even the best of them ...

The nova appeared in the constellation Lupus, which is positioned in the southern sky. While best seen from the Southern ...

It was kind of like seeing a pregnant octogenarian in a nursing home.” That is what astronomers employed to explain the ...

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

Sky watchers around the world have a new star to hunt for in the night sky, thanks to a recently detected explosion in 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 ...

For the study, the researchers used computer models to compare Earth-like exoplanets each orbiting a white dwarf star and the main-sequence K-dwarf star, Kepler-62, both of which exhibit temperatures ...