The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to determine the mass of white dwarf star LAWD 37. It is "56 percent the mass of our ...

Using the Subaru Telescope's wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny ...

Are Sun-like stars the only stars where Earth-like worlds exist? This is what a recent study presented this morning at the ...

The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs ...

"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...

NASA’s IXPE has peered into a nearby white dwarf system, revealing towering X-ray emitting gas columns and hidden stellar ...

In the shockwave, a red hue represented hydrogen, green represented nitrogen, and blue represented oxygen residing in ...

A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...

Earth is still the only confirmed example of life, and two facts stand out: we exist very early in the universe’s stelliferous era, and we orbit a Sun-like star despite most stars being dim red dwarfs ...

In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...

A nearby white dwarf is carving a colourful shockwave through space, puzzling astronomers and raising new questions about how ...