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

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 ...

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 ...