Astronomers report the discovery of a new binary system, designated LAMOST J065816.72+094343.1. The newfound binary consists ...

NASA’s IXPE reveals shocking new details about a white dwarf star, giving it a cosmic second chance with stunning X-ray data.

NASA has finally peered into the heart of a white dwarf system in a way astronomers have been chasing for decades, turning a ...

Astronomers at Durham University and collaborators at the University of Warwick used the European Southern Observatory’s Very ...

Advanced aliens could be chatting with each other using light flashes in plain sight, similar to how fireflies communicate, ...

Sometimes progress in space science does not arrive with a flash. It comes quietly, through patient observation, and then settles into place. That is .

What makes the star remarkable is its location. Siwarha appears to orbit so close that it never leaves Betelgeuse’s ...

A smaller white dwarf star (left) pulls material from a larger star into a swirling accretion disk in this artist's concept ...

A dead star 730 light years away appears to be forming a powerful structure around itself — and despite their best efforts, ...

Astronomers have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact Earth-sized stellar ember - that is creating a colorful shockwave ...

NASA’s IXPE has just revealed the hidden geometry of a white dwarf’s cosmic feeding frenzy—using X-rays to see what no ...

The ability to collect this experimental data in very hot, dense, star-like plasma will help researchers validate and improve ...