One long standing puzzle has been the composition of these stars, particularly the unexpected presence of heavy metals like ...

T Coronae Borealis nova, known as "Blaze Star," will brighten in 2024 and become visible to the naked eye. Here's how to ...

In an age-old bullying dynamic, an enormous red giant star messes with its tiny white dwarf neighbor until the white dwarf ...

Scientists from the University of Warwick and other universities have studied the impact white dwarfs – end-of-state stars that have burned all their fuel – have on planetary systems such as ...

In their new study, the researchers examined the brightness of three different white dwarf stars over 17 years. By watching how the brightness rose and fell, the scientists were able to determine ...

Astronomers have predicted that a nearby white dwarf star orbiting in the T Coronae Borealis system some 3,000 light years from Earth will erupt in a dramatic nova explosion later this year ...

Borrowing the word die — which belongs to biology — the grand total of stellar deaths is about 52 per century or one every ...

Scientists say that these events happen whenever a collapsed white dwarf star and a red giant star come too close together. In turn, this causes the temperature of the red giant's surface to raise ...

The 'white dwarf' star that could kill Earth is already a part of our solar system. When our sun dies, it may 'swallow' our planet, or tear it apart, but The Royal Astronomical Society says its ...

Leading scientists have suggested that parts of our solar system will eventually meet their end as a result of a white dwarf star. As the Sun, our solar system’s only star, becomes increasingly ...