Astronomers have made a first-of-its-kind discovery — a white dwarf star with two completely different faces. White dwarfs are burnt remains of dead stars. Our sun will become a white dwarf in ...

Based on time-series photometry from three different telescopes, an international team of astronomers has performed a ...

The star—named WD 0816-310—is a white dwarf star situated around 63 light years away and was spotted with a bizarre scar stretching across its surface by the European Southern Observatory's ...

It's the definition of "no pain, no gain." The rapid spin of this white dwarf, that is vampirically taking stellar matter away from a companion star, could be explained by its shrinking radius.

The solar system of the far future is safe from a run-in with a runaway dead star. Last year, researchers looked at the trajectory of a rogue white dwarf star called WD 0810–353 with the Gaia ...

Against all odds, a small planetary body called a planetesimal has survived the infernal death of its sunlike star and now orbits the white dwarf that remains. The rare discovery of the intact ...

There a giant planet like Jupiter orbits a white dwarf, a dim, dense star that once resembled the sun. In 2010, that star passed in front of a much more distant star. Like a magnifying glass ...

It will then leave behind a small, hot star, slightly larger than Earth, known as a white dwarf. Astronomers have discovered an unusual pair: a white dwarf, called WDJ0914+1914, with a giant ...