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

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact Earth-sized stellar ...

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

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

Chinese astronomers have conducted an asteroseismology study of a newly discovered pulsating white dwarf designated WFST ...

Data from the Kepler project has confirmed a new world that fulfills the telescope's goal of locating Earth-sized planets ...

One clear radio signal has at last proved that a star other than our Sun has the ability to launch a genuine coronal mass ...

The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs Within 40 Parsecs Using High-Resolution Spectra,” is what sets it apart.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured detailed images of gas and dust shaped by a dying star in the Helix Nebula, ...

Most stars in the cosmos are small, cool red dwarfs, yet the only intelligent life we know orbits a relatively rare yellow dwarf under a blue sky. That mismatch is at the heart of the “red sky paradox ...

It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before.

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured the most intricate view yet of the Helix Nebula, offering a sharp, infrared ...