After many previous claims and false alarms, astronomers can finally confirm the existence of at least four planets less ...

Richard Livitski Seal Beach, California Our Sun will become a white dwarf in about 7 billion years. At that point, it will no longer produce energy through nuclear fusion, having exhausted its ...

Neutrinos generated through solar fusion reactions travel effortlessly through the sun's dense core. Each specific fusion ...

Astronomers have traced a starnge blast of radiowaves that repeats every 2 hours back to a dead star white dwarf magnetically ...

The sun will end its life as a white dwarf. As a white dwarf, it is essentially a dead star that has exhausted all of the nuclear fuel that it is capable of burning. As a white dwarf, it will ...

TRAPPIST-1 is a red dwarf star about 40.7 light-years away from Earth. It is of particular interest because it has seven ...

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 ...

This leaves a smoldering stellar core, or white dwarf, surrounded by a spreading cloud of ex-stellar material. When the sun goes through this process in around 5 billion years, it will spend the ...