The findings reveal unusual chemical signatures and offer new insights into the behavior of novas beyond the Milky Way.

Learn how gravity and mass are pulling two stars into tighter, faster orbit around each other, with an explosive collision ...

Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...

Astronomers have confirmed a pair of white dwarfs on a collision course to become a type 1a supernova—the brightest cosmic ...

Our own sun will also die as a white dwarf, which is the final stage for medium-mass stars that run out of fuel.White dwarfs gradually dim and cool until they wink out of existence altogether. In ...

That isn't the case with white dwarfs, which form when stars like the sun run out of fuel for nuclear fusion, shedding their outer layers as their cores collapse and forming a cooling stellar ember.

Located in the Corona Borealis constellation, T CrB is a binary system made up of a white dwarf (the remains of a dead star with a mass comparable to that of the Sun squeezed into an Earth-sized ...