Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...

The interior of this type of star is incredibly dense ... inside a white dwarf is very different from a diamond. The interior of a white dwarf is not only much denser than anything found on ...

Scientists already know that a planet must be in the “Goldilocks zone”—not too hot and not too cold—to have liquid water, a ...

For over 40 years, astronomers have been puzzled by strange X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf. Now, they may ...

Astronomers have discovered that a pair of stars—one white dwarf and one red dwarf—are sending out radio pulses every two ...

When they reach the end of their long evolutions, smaller stars—those up to eight times as massive as our own sun—typically become white dwarfs. These ancient stars are incredibly dense.

A decades-old cosmic mystery may finally be solved. Scientists now suspect that the strange X-ray glow from a distant white ...

Of three possible explanations, one is a white dwarf star caught in the black hole’s gravity. Scientists will monitor the phenomenon to find out for sure, and 2035’s LISA antenna will verify.

Now, astronomers have zeroed in on the surprising origin of the unusual radio pulses: a dead star, called a white dwarf, that is closely orbiting a small, cool red dwarf star. Red dwarfs are the ...

Northwestern University scientists have detected the first radio pulses that can be traced to a dead-star binary.

A white dwarf and a red dwarf star have been discovered closely orbiting each other emitting radio pulses every two hours. Their findings means we know it isn't just neutron stars that emit such ...