White dwarfs are the compact remnants of stars that have stopped nuclear burning, a fate that will eventually befall our sun.

A new study from Kyoto University has shown that white dwarfs, can be significantly hotter than expected when locked in tight ...

The tides are changing for white dwarfs Old stars in binary systems may be even hotter than previously thought. (Nanowerk ...

Old binary star systems may contain stars that are even hotter than scientists previously believed. White dwarfs are the dense, compact remains left behind when stars exhaust their nuclear fuel, a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team led by Northwestern University has for the first time ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have performed infrared observations of a planetary debris disk ...

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

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to determine the mass of white dwarf star LAWD 37. It is "56 percent the mass of our ...

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...

NASA has shared 10 breathtaking images capturing the vibrant beauty of the cosmos, featuring colourful stars, glowing nebulae ...

The dark object has a mass a million times greater than our sun's is located 10 billion light-years away and has no stars.