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 Sun," according to NASA/ESA. Credit: NASA, ESA, P. McGill (Univ. of ...

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

The nova V462 Lupi was first discovered on June 12 by the Ohio State University-led All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae ...

Astronomers have discovered a white dwarf star, or the burnt core of a dead star, that has two completely different faces. One is made of hydrogen, while the other is made of helium.

As previously reported, a white dwarf is essentially the burnt-out core of a dead star. One of the first white dwarf stars discovered, dubbed 40 Eridani B, had a density over 25,000 times that of ...

T here are a lot of ways for dead stars to blow their tops. Astronomers discovered this explosive diversity when they ...

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

A strange star deep in space has been left with a metallic scar across its surface after eating one of its own planets. The star—named WD 0816-310—is a white dwarf star situated around 63 ...

The never-before-seen "nova," dubbed V462 Lupi, recently appeared in the constellation Lupus, after suddenly becoming 4 ...

A distant star has a dead star companion lurking in its vicinity that could be a monster-massive white dwarf, raising the question: how has it avoided being devoured by this cosmic zombie?

Astronomers have discovered a pair of white dwarf stars locked in a tight orbital dance, hurtling towards a spectacular and violent end.. Located a mere 160 light-years from Earth within our Milky ...