Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located about 145 ...

Scientists found 13 heavy chemical elements polluting the atmosphere of the star named LSPM J0207+3331, which is located ...

What can white dwarf stars eating their own planets teach astronomers about planetary and solar system formation and ...

In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and collapse under its own gravity, becoming a white ...

The destroyed planet has spewed material onto the white dwarf's surface, with astronomers detecting 13 different elements ...

Astronomers using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi Island have identified a rare, ancient ...

The future of yellow dwarf stars, like our sun, is determined almost entirely by their mass. The most massive stars, about eight to 12 times heftier than the sun, can explode as supernovae, leading to ...

Old binary star systems may contain stars that are even hotter than scientists previously believed. White dwarfs are the dense, compact remains left behind when stars exhaust their nuclear fuel, a ...

V Sagittae’s violent mass transfer hints at an imminent nova—and a future supernova visible from Earth. Binary star systems are fairly common in the universe, as are pairs where one star is a compact ...

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 ...