On July 2, 2025, the China-led Einstein Probe (EP) space telescope detected an exceptionally bright X-ray source whose ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The central square image, taken with the MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, shows shock waves around the dead star ...

Hubble spots white dwarf star 'snacking' on chunk of Pluto-like object. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a white dwarf star devouring a piece of a Pluto-like object. The star is about ...

From degeneracy to galactic archaeology, white dwarfs are helping scientists make sense of some of the universe's burning ...

This small carbon trace marks this object as a product of a rare white dwarf merger rather than single‑star evolution. In a paper published in Nature Astronomy, Snehalata Sahu (University of Warwick) ...

Cosmic radio pulses repeating every few minutes or hours, known as long-period transients, have puzzled astronomers since their discovery in 2022. Our new study, published in Nature Astronomy today, ...

Aging stars can completely destroy their planets. When a star reaches the end of its life on the main sequence, it goes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The central square image, taken with the MUSE instrument on ESO In the shockwave, a red hue represented hydrogen, green ...