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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. White dwarf stars, like this one shown shrouded by a planetary nebula, are much smaller than stars like our Sun. NASA/R. Ciardullo ...

After the sun finally dies, billions of years in the future, Earth too will meet a grisly end. There are several ways that our home planet may be destroyed after the sun dies, possibly being swallowed ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to the dwarf planet ...

A white dwarf is the extremely dense remnant of a dead star, with an average density up to a million times that of the Sun.

A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. The team has determined that the star is a white dwarf, a system ...

The future of yellow dwarf stars, like our sun, is determined almost entirely by their mass. The most massive stars, about eight to 12 times heftier than the sun, can explode as supernovae, leading to ...

Astronomers have discovered the smallest and most massive white dwarf ever seen. The smoldering cinder, which formed when two less massive white dwarfs merged, is heavy, “packing a mass greater than ...

In an ancient star system expected to be stable and dormant, scientists found a 3 billion-year-old white dwarf star still tearing apart massive quantities of rock. “The rate we’ve seen rock consumed ...

The night sky might be about to gain a brand-new star thanks to a distant sun exploding violently. This far-distant stellar system is situated around 3,000 light years away from Earth and is usually ...

On Jan. 31, 1783, William Herschel was creating a catalog of double stars when he spotted 40 Eridani B. This dim white object was part of a triple-star system, and was the first white dwarf ever ...