Astronomers have discovered a "teenage vampire" dead star in the process of devouring a companion star during a short-lived, "missing link" phase of its evolution.

If this dead star orbits close enough to its living stellar companion, or if that companion swells up, then the white dwarf becomes a stellar vampire, greedily stripping material from its ...

Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning view of the Large Magellanic Cloud, revealing swirling gas and dust in vibrant ...

Here’s how it works. An artist's impression of a binary system where a red giant star is being stripped of its matter by a white dwarf. The stolen matter forms a spiraling disc onto the white dwarf.

De Ruiter and her colleagues conducted follow-up observations of the red dwarf star using the 21-foot (6.5-meter) Multiple Mirror Telescope at the MMT Observatory on Mount Hopkins in Arizona, as ...

An international team of astronomers just announced a bizarre discovery: a white dwarf star with two completely different faces. This is the first time such a stellar remnant has ever been found ...

But this star isn't the life-giving companion our sun is to us; it's stripping away the giant planet's atmosphere. An animation shows the white dwarf and its much larger, Neptune-like planet.

The back-to-back explosions obliterated a white dwarf that had a mass roughly equal to the sun and was located about 160,000 light‑years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Dorado ...

The star system, officially called ILT J163430+445010 (or J1634+44 for short), is located over 3,500 light years from Earth. What makes it extraordinary isn't just that it's sending radio signals ...

That's because Gaia22ayj is actually a white dwarf feeding on a companion star, with this binary in a rare and short-lived phase of its life (or should that be death).