A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray telescope, Hubble and more has narrowed down its age to ...

Nijmegen master's students predict that LISA, an upcoming space antenna project by the ESA, will detect stronger ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.

Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely ...

When a white dwarf like T Coronae Borealis goes nova, it doesn’t create a new star; instead, it experiences a huge explosion ...

A white dwarf is a star's remnant after it has run out of nuclear fuel and shed its outer layers. It symbolises the sun's eventual fate. The sun will grow into a red giant as its nuclear fuel runs ...

It's called a "zombie star," and it occurs roughly every 80 years when the remnant of a dead star becomes visible to the ...

Elizabeth Hays, chief of the Astroparticle Physics Laboratory at NASA Goddard, told ABC7 in a live interview that this "zombie star" explodes in a blaze of light every 80 years or so, due to it ...

A celestial explosion will cause a star to rise from its cosmic grave, briefly creating a "new" star in our night sky!

The Blaze Star has become a white dwarf, which happens when stars have exhausted their nuclear fuels. "It’s basically a dead star," NASA astrophysicist Padi Boyd told ABC News. "It’s not ...