The team that made the discovery was led by the University of Cambridge and used data from two telescopes to measure how the light of a distant star bent around the white dwarf star known as LAWD 37.

The future of yellow dwarf stars, like our sun, is determined almost entirely by their mass. The most massive stars, about eight to 12 times heftier than the sun, can explode as supernovae ...

The sun is indeed classed as a yellow dwarf star, but this is a misnomer—it does not mean the sun looks yellow to us. The name simply refers to the sun's medium size, common for this class of stars.

The future of yellow dwarf stars, like our sun, is determined almost entirely by their mass. The most massive stars, about eight to 12 times heftier than the sun, can explode as supernovae ...

In neutron star pulsars, no companion star is required. But in white dwarf pulsars, ... Chile, which is capable of taking 500 pictures a second to detect rapid changes in light.

The star—named WD 0816-310—is a white dwarf star situated around 63 light years away and was spotted with a bizarre scar stretching across its ... Stock image of a planet next to a white dwarf.

It is a white dwarf star that was once "several times more massive" than the Earth's sun. It has been in the process of dying for over 4,000 years, and "will continue to change over many more ...

The future of yellow dwarf stars, like our sun, is determined almost entirely by their mass. The most massive stars, about eight to 12 times heftier than the sun, can explode as supernovae ...