A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

Astronomers have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact Earth-sized stellar ember - that is creating a colorful shockwave ...

Astronomy often moves forward in small steps. Then, from time to time, something appears in the sky that simply does not fit ...

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

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

Experts observed the white dwarf star RXJ0528+2838 through the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, and were ...

A smaller white dwarf star (left) pulls material from a larger star into a swirling accretion disk in this artist's concept ...

A dead star 730 light years away appears to be forming a powerful structure around itself — and despite their best efforts, ...

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

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

Webb reveals a bridge of stars linking two nearby dwarf galaxies, offering a look at how gravity reshapes galaxies and sparks ...