Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from ...

Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered a compact binary system consisting of two white dwarfs in the center of a nearby globular cluster designated NGC 6397. The finding was ...

White dwarfs are the final stop for stars that aren’t massive enough to go out in a supernova. Think of them as the retirement phase for the vast majority of stars in our universe. When a star ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The central square image, taken with the MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, shows shock waves around the dead star ...

This small carbon trace marks this object as a product of a rare white dwarf merger rather than single‑star evolution. In a paper published in Nature Astronomy, Snehalata Sahu (University of Warwick) ...

White dwarfs, the compact remnants of low- to intermediate-mass stars, offer a unique window into the fate of planetary systems. Recent observational and theoretical work has revealed that many white ...

A burst of X-rays from 8 billion years ago may be the first clear evidence of a white dwarf torn apart by a black hole. The study, coordinated by Dongyue Li and Wenda Zhang of the Chinese Academy of ...

In an ancient star system expected to be stable and dormant, scientists found a 3 billion-year-old white dwarf star still tearing apart massive quantities of rock. “The rate we’ve seen rock consumed ...

Artist’s impression of the long-period transient J1634+44, revealed to be a white dwarf with a companion. Credits: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/P. Vosteen. LOFAR is a low-frequency radio astronomy array that ...

White dwarf stars represent the evolutionary endpoints of medium- and low-mass stars, comprising the dense, electron-degenerate cores left after nuclear fuel exhaustion. In binary systems, ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the ...

For the first time, astronomers have observed something like a Pluto colliding with a white dwarf, the shriveled corpse of a medium-size star. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope made the discovery by ...