Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...

White dwarfs are the compact remnants of stars that have stopped nuclear burning, a fate that will eventually befall our sun.

For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your ...

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 ...

A new study has looked into the so-called "red sky paradox" and the puzzling observation that intelligent life has sprung up ...

White dwarf stars represent the evolutionary endpoints of medium- and low-mass stars, comprising the dense, electron-degenerate cores left after nuclear fuel exhaustion. In binary systems, ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered the remains of a frozen, Pluto-like world being devoured by a ...

"The speed at which this doomed stellar system is lurching wildly, likely due to the extreme brightness, is a frantic sign of ...

That thinning likely resulted from two stars merging and burning off outer layers during the collision. This rare white dwarf merger left a stripped remnant with a nearly pure hydrogen atmosphere yet ...

Previous research suggests that brown dwarfs should contain phosphine—which forms when phosphorus combines with ...

Phosphine has caused quite a stir in the astronomical world lately. That was largely due to its (still hotly debated) ...