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

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

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 ...

This one—called “Parker’s Star,” the remnant of the supernova SN 1181, named for the year it appeared in Earth’s skies—lies ...

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.

The system no longer creates energy at its core, so the star is dead. The white dwarf star has been named WD 0816-310 by the researching astronomers. Research found that the scar developed after ...

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 "zombie star" could possibly rise from the dead on Halloween night, according to space experts. T Coronae Borealis, also ...

The "grave" of an undead white dwarf star is marked by a cosmic funeral wreath. Astronomers have intensely studied a zombie star lurking in the heart of supernova wreckage. Such a cosmic explosion ...

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

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