Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a "ultra-massive white dwarf that formed when a white dwarf ...

A study of more than 26,000 white dwarf stars has confirmed a long-predicted but elusive effect in these ultra-dense, dying stars: Hotter white dwarfs are slightly puffier than cooler ones, even when ...

The night sky might be about to gain a brand-new star thanks to a distant sun exploding violently. This far-distant stellar system is situated around 3,000 light years away from Earth and is usually ...

"When we saw the results, it actually fitted this long-standing question of how these hypervelocity white dwarfs formed. It was super cool." White dwarfs — the superdense, slowly cooling embers left ...

The search for habitable planets has taken a leap forward with new space telescopes probing exoplanet atmospheres for life. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has begun analyzing distant worlds, ...

In a first for white dwarfs, the burnt-out cores of dead stars, astronomers have discovered that at least one member of this cosmic family is two faced. One side of the white dwarf is composed of ...

In a paper published today in Nature, scholars from the Institute for Advanced Study; the University of Victoria, Canada; and the University of Warwick, U.K., have proposed a new theory that explains ...

Astronomers have made a first-of-its-kind discovery — a white dwarf star with two completely different faces. White dwarfs are burnt remains of dead stars. Our sun will become a white dwarf in about 5 ...