The first double-burst supernova ever observed, SNR 0509, is a historic discovery that reveals how white dwarfs explode in ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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