At 8.6 light-years away, Sirius B is the nearest known white dwarf star to Earth. Photograph courtesy NASA/ESA/H. Bond (STScl)/M. Barstow (University of Leicester) Red giants are hot enough to ...

Scientists may be able to confirm that this is indeed a white dwarf using next-generation observatories such as NASA's Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), which is designed to detect ...

White dwarfs, once thought lifeless, could host habitable planets. The James Webb Telescope is searching for atmospheric ...

NASA reports that T Coronae Borealis, a white dwarf star 3,000 light-years away from the solar system, will likely explode as a nova this spring or summer. It's a predictable event every 80 years ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

Astronomers are baffled by EP240408a, a rare cosmic explosion that defies explanation, sparking theories of a black hole and ...

As per NASA, the rare sight of a Wolf-Rayet star – among the most luminous, most massive, and most briefly detectable stars ...

The light output of exploding white dwarf stars, which are the stellar corpses of stars with masses around that of the sun, is so uniform that astronomers can use it to measure distances.

Scientists may be able to confirm that this is indeed a white dwarf using next-generation observatories such as Nasa's Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), which is designed to detect ...