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 ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

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

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy have identified a new category of events that they found to be much more powerful than gamma-ray bursts, called extreme nuclear ...

A new study reveals an intriguing possibility: asupernova explosion might have sent a surge of cosmic rays toward Earth ...

Images taken by JWST reveal the star that became SN2025pht before it exploded, providing our best view of a red supergiant ...

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