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 ...

Brown dwarf stars, white dwarf stars, and even neutron stars aren’t actually stars, while red dwarf stars, yellow dwarfs (like our Sun), and all giant stars do turn out to be stars. Here’s ...

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 ...

Hillwig received a $72,743 grant that will fund the hiring of student researchers who will help study dwarf white stars over the next three summers. Titled “A Treasury FUV Survey of the Hottest ...

Astronomers have found a rare white dwarf star about 104 light-years away whose core appears to be transforming into an ultra-dense “cosmic diamond.” When some stars, such as the Sun ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - A slowly cooling stellar ember called a white dwarf with a scar on its face is providing new insight into the behavior of certain "cannibal" stars at the end of ...

Could white dwarf stars host habitable exoplanets that might support life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international team of ...

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 ...