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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

This illustration shows a dwarf galaxy in the throes of transitioning to an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy as it’s stripped of its outer layers of stars and gas by a nearby larger galaxy.

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 ...

The discovery of a rare type of white dwarf star system provides new understanding into stellar evolution.

The latest discovery brings the number of known "double-faced" white dwarf stars to just seven.

The 'ultracool' star is possibly around 44 times as dense as our solar system's largest member—the gas giant Jupiter.

A strange star deep in space has been left with a metallic scar across its surface after eating one of its own planets. The star—named WD 0816-310—is a white dwarf star situated around 63 ...