New research suggests that life could have the time and energy to arise on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking ...

That's the conclusion of Florida Institute of Technology researcher Caldon Whyte, who's particularly fascinated by these stellar remnants. Until now, scientists have generally thought that planets ...

Out in the universe lie dead stellar remnants called neutron stars, and these stars gain tremendously powerful magnetic fields when matter ejected from during their explosive supernova deaths ...

Neutron stars are exotic and extremely compact stellar remnants. Only black holes have a higher mass density. While black holes colliding with each other can only be detected by the emitted ...

Joined UD in 1994 as a postdoc for Dr. Harry Shipman White dwarf stars are the endpoints of stellar evolution for the vast majority of stars. These stellar remnants provide insight into past and ...

The results are described in Nature 1 on 5 March. Neutron stars are the remnants of massive stars that collapsed at the end of their lifetimes, compressing more than a Sun’s worth of mass into a ...

StarBurst sits on a stand at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D.C., February 18, 2025. StarBurst was fabricated and designed at the U.S. NRL and is a SmallSat instrument that ...

Artistic illustration showing the radio pulses emitted by the binary star system: a white dwarf in orbit around a red dwarf. Credit Daniëlle Futselaar/artsource.nl In a breakthrough discovery, an ...