A typical white dwarf’s core elements are obscured by thick layers of hydrogen and helium—but that covering almost entirely ...

University of Warwick astronomers have uncovered compelling evidence that a nearby white dwarf is in fact the remnant of two ...

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.

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.

Astronomers Discover Pair of Super-Rare 'Two-Faced' Stars Published Apr 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM EDT Updated Apr 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM EDT By Soo Kim ...

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 ...

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 ...

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).