Dark matter remains one of science's deepest mysteries. It makes up about 25% of our universe, yet scientists only observe ...

About 8,150 light-years from Earth, a white dwarf star named Gaia22ayj has intrigued astronomers. Its unusual behavior, ...

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

“These objects collect the dark matter that helps them become a dark dwarf. The more dark matter you have around, the more ...

New study by Caltech scientists finds distant third stars may be the hidden force behind volatile white dwarf duos.

More information: Kaixiang Wang et al, An evolutionary continuum from nucleated dwarf galaxies to star clusters, Nature (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06650-z. Journal information: Nature.

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 ...

Open any astronomy textbook to the section on white dwarf stars and you'll likely learn that they are 'dead stars' that continuously cool down over time. Astronomers are challenging this theory ...

Stock image: An illustration of a white dwarf star in space. iStock / Getty Images Plus. These unique white dwarfs exhibit different compositional "faces" as they spin, resembling one type of ...

The “ultracool brown dwarf” named T8 Dwarf WISE J062309.94−045624.6 is not the coldest star ever found, but it is the coolest to be analyzed using radio astronomy, according to the team on ...

A team of astronomers have captured the first direct image of a brown dwarf orbiting a star. The research was led by the Astrobiology Center of the National Institute of Natural Sciences (NINS) and ...