Astronomers have captured a groundbreaking phenomenon at the brink of a supermassive black hole located at the heart of ...

White dwarfs can pack the mass of a star into a volume the size of Earth, meaning they are extremely dense — a tablespoon of white dwarf material can weigh tons. Their interiors push physics to ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features the galaxy LEDA 22057, which is located about 650 million ...

What can fast-spinning stars known as “blue lurkers” teach us about star formation and evolution? This is what a recent study being presented a | Space ...

It's the definition of "no pain, no gain." The rapid spin of this white dwarf, that is vampirically taking stellar matter away from a companion star, could be explained by its shrinking radius.

When our Sun dies, it will turn into a white dwarf. They are a common aspect of stellar evolution and a team of researchers ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures the mesmerizing galaxy LEDA 22057, home to a recent supernova explosion, SN 2024PI. This ...

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.

Heigh-ho, heigh-ho...today we celebrate the anniversary of the launch of the animated Walt Disney classic, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Adapted from the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale ...

Potentially habitable exoplanets are so incredibly common that astronomers have started to consider more unusual situations where life might arise. Perhaps life can be found on the moon of a hot ...

They then begin the slow process of cooling down over time. The minimum size of a white dwarf is controlled by something called electron degeneracy pressure. Inside a white dwarf, electrons can ...