The vocalisation of a dwarf minke whale sounds so strange and resonant it has been likened to a Star Wars lightsaber.

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 ...

Jupiter-like planet 8 UMi b, named Halla, orbits its host red giant star Baekdu closely. The red giant's merger with a white ...

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

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 ...

However, a white dwarf’s story changes when it is part of a binary star system. In this arrangement, a white dwarf star usually pulls mass from a nearby companion star. When a white dwarf exceeds a ...

'Daredevil' white dwarf star could be closest-known object to a weird black hole. Robert Lea. Mon, January 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM UTC. 7 min read.

Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star. By Jonathan O’Callaghan In six billion years the sun ...