Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy material, the ingredients of planets," according to NASA's Goddard Space ...

Chilean astronomers have observed a cataclysmic variable known as V1425 Aql. As a result, they have found that this system ...

Our white dwarf Sun will cool for billions upon billions of years, slowly fading away as a dark, solid carbon-oxygen ball.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to detect millions of exploding vampire stellar remnants called "white dwarfs," shedding ...

If it’s real, some may question whether something with a mass about three times Pluto’s counts as a planet at all.

A Triple Star System Yields an Unusual Surviving Star Unlike our Sun, which exists alone, at least half of the stars in our ...

Measuring distances across the universe is much more challenging than measuring distances on Earth. Is a brighter star closer ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was truly a trendsetter for the Walt Disney Company. The film brought so much success to the ...

International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...

Discover the fascinating story of the 'blue lurker,' a mysterious star in the M67 star cluster studied by NASA's Hubble ...

Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...