Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

Learn about the explosions that often occur at the end of a white dwarf star's life, allowing scientists to study the ...

Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after ...

A stunning new discovery reveals that white dwarf stars — once thought to explode in predictable ways — actually detonate through an astonishing variety of mechanisms. From star cannibalism to violent ...

A unique dataset of Type Ia supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of ...

That’s why her team thinks the orbiter is a 0.1-solar-mass white dwarf — the superheated, compact remnant of a Sun-like star. A white dwarf would also lose angular momentum through ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy ... as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), operating in Chile's Atacama ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

These white-hot dying stars are called white dwarfs by astronomers ... of black holes is one of the great frontier areas of astronomy. From reading the life story of the stars so far, you might ...

Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after ...