Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf ...

Astronomers have solved the mystery of a star that has baffled scientists for over a century, finding it is a cannibal white ...

Scientists shocked by ‘greedy’ white dwarf star devouring its twin - V Sagittae has baffled experts since it was first ...

A greedy white dwarf star not far from Earth is devouring its closest celestial companion at a rate never seen before, space ...

Astronomers discovered a rare ultra-massive white dwarf forged in a stellar smash-up and unmasked only by Hubble’s ultraviolet vision.

"It's a discovery that underlines things may be different from what they appear to us at first glance." Astronomers using the ...

We like to think that our solar system is eternal, but one day, its very epicenter will die. Our Sun, like all stars, had a ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star ...

"When we saw the results, it actually fitted this long-standing question of how these hypervelocity white dwarfs formed. It ...

Astronomers have uncovered the violent secret of V Sagittae, a white dwarf star consuming its companion in a spectacular ...

A rare white dwarf merger remnant emerges in ultraviolet light, revealing thin layers of hydrogen and helium stripped away during a cosmic collision. Scientists at the University of Warwick report the ...

But in reality, it may be the beginning of a new phase of life for all the objects living in the solar system. When stars ...