One was a hypothetical white dwarf that’s passed through much of its life cycle and was thought to be inhospitable to life. The other was Kepler-62, located about 1,200 light-years from Earth ...

In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...

This time, the focus is on the remains of a star that exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

The life cycle for a particular star depends on ... In this instance, the star becomes a white dwarf which fades and changes colour as it cools.

Credit: Mark Garlick White dwarfs (the dense remnants of stars) are abundant objects throughout the universe and they represent the final stage in the life cycle of most stars. Studying them helps ...

Did you know that the Genestealer Cults first infiltrated our planet in 1989? Let's take a look at that first list from many ...

Results of the new observations, published April 9 on the arXiv preprint server, indicate that the system harbors a massive pulsating white dwarf. Cataclysmic variables (CVs) are binary star ...

The findings suggest that there are many more targets of opportunity for locating potentially habitable worlds across our ...

The life cycle for a particular star depends on ... In this instance, the star becomes a white dwarf which fades and changes colour as it cools.