Astronomers have captured the first-ever visual evidence of awhite dwarf star exploding twice in a remarkable supernova event ...

The never-before-seen "nova," dubbed V462 Lupi, recently appeared in the constellation Lupus, after suddenly becoming 4 ...

Astronomers have discovered the "missing link" connecting the death of sunlike stars to the birth of white dwarf stellar ...

The most famous star in the Little Dipper is Polaris, which is currently known as the North Star or Pole Star, as it appears to be aligned with Earth's axis, or Celestial Pole. (It's actually ...

This star has been so hard to see because it is a very small, dim white dwarf, and its light gets lost in the light from Polaris A. Designated Polaris Ab, this star orbits around Polaris A at a ...

Sky watchers around the world have a new star to hunt for in the night sky, thanks to a recently detected explosion in our ...

An artist's concept of the binary star system known as T Coronae Borealis, in which a white dwarf star will burst with bright light after siphoning material from its larger red giant star companion.

Astronomers have discovered an unusual blue-tinted white dwarf star with two distinct "faces": one side is hydrogen and the other side is helium, according to a new paper published in the journal ...

To find the North Star, look due north (opposite where the nun is at noon), and look not quite halfway up in the sky (assuming you live in mid-northern latitudes).