The Universe still holds many surprises, as demonstrated by this exceptional observation of a dying star devouring the ...

For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your place in the universe feel both ordinary and strange.

The destroyed planet has spewed material onto the white dwarf's surface, with astronomers detecting 13 different elements ...

What can white dwarf stars eating their own planets teach astronomers about planetary and solar system formation and ...

Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located about 145 ...

Astronomers discover a 3-billion-year-old white dwarf, LSPM J0207+3331, actively accumulationplanetary material long after its star’s death, revealing ongoing dynamics in ancient stellar remnants.

Keck Observatory and Subaru Telescope on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island, have discovered a brown dwarf companion orbiting a nearby ...

The world of astronomy has just found something that lies on the border between science and science fiction. We are sure that ...

An international team of astronomers have employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a nearby M-dwarf star ...

New research has shed doubt upon the nature of a distant "dead star" that exists in a binary system with an active stellar companion. Scientists behind the research think this stellar corpse is ...

An international team of astronomers led by Dr Iris de Ruiter, now at the University of Sydney, has shown that a white dwarf and a red dwarf star orbiting each other every two hours are emitting radio ...

White dwarf stars represent the final evolutionary stage for the majority of stars, including those similar to our Sun. These compact remnants, composed largely of electron-degenerate matter, are ...