NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is providing strong evidence that white dwarfs, the burned-out relics of stars, are given a “kick” when they form. The sharp vision of Hubble’s Advanced Camera for ...

Could dying stars hold the secret to looking younger? New evidence from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope suggests that white dwarf stars could continue to burn hydrogen in the final stages of their lives ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a "ultra-massive white dwarf that formed when a white dwarf merged with another star," according to the Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

Some 200 light years from Earth, the core of a dead star is circling a larger star in a macabre cosmic dance. The dead star ...

Illustration depicting the hot stellar merger that formed the ultra-massive white dwarf -WD 0525+526. (Dr. Snehalata Sahu/University of Warwick) (CN) — Astronomers at the University of Warwick have ...

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 hopes to address as a team of scientists ...

Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located about 145 light-years away, is still consuming the rocky remains of its former ...

White dwarfs are the stars that will be left behind when stars like the sun "die," smoldering away in space as cooling stellar embers. Recent observations indicated that some of these stellar corpses ...

New research has shed doubt upon the nature of a distant "dead star" that exists in a binary system with an active stellar companion. Scientists behind the research think this stellar corpse is ...