Astronomers have identified the source of strange radio flashes: a binary system containing a white dwarf, the remnant of a ...

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 ...

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

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

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 white dwarf is the stellar core left behind after a dying star has exhausted its nuclear fuel. A new study used data from powerful X-ray missions, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Euro ...

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.

An international team of astronomers led by Dr Iris de Ruiter, now at the University of Sydney, has shown that a white dwarf and a red dwarf star orbiting each other every two hours are emitting ...