The origin of enigmatic long-period radio bursts has been shown to be from the clash of magnetic fields as a white dwarf ...

Astronomers say they've figured out an unusual burst of radio emissions. The post Scientists Say They’ve Cracked Mystery ...

Something in the universe is sending powerful, regular bursts towards Earth – and now researchers think they have decoded ...

A pair of stars spiralling around each other. That’s the origin of a new source of repeating radio bursts we’ve detected, ...

This graphic shows how microlensing was used to measure the mass of a white dwarf star. The dwarf, called LAWD 37, is a burned-out star in the center of this Hubble Space Telescope image. Credits: ...

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

"When we saw the results, it actually fitted this long-standing question of how these hypervelocity white dwarfs formed. It was super cool." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Astronomers have discovered the smallest and most massive white dwarf ever seen. The smoldering cinder, which formed when two less massive white dwarfs merged, is heavy, “packing a mass greater than ...

Confirming a long-held theoretical prediction, a survey of 26,000 white dwarfs found that the hotter they are, the more bloated are their outer layers. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...