By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly ...

University of Warwick astronomers have uncovered the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being ...

Astronomers spot a white dwarf consuming a Pluto-like icy world, uncovering volatile elements that reshape our understanding ...

Hubble discovered a white dwarf planet devouring a Pluto-like object, revealing debris rich in water and nitrogen.

Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf ...

What will our solar system look like after the Sun dies? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society hop | Space ...

"When we saw the results, it actually fitted this long-standing question of how these hypervelocity white dwarfs formed. It ...

Hubble has uncovered a rare ultra-massive white dwarf created in a violent star merger. Once thought to be ordinary, the star ...

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, leading to ...

White dwarfs are the final product of low-mass star evolution, with masses about half that of the Sun but sizes comparable to that of Earth. These stellar remnants are extremely common, with an ...