Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to determine the mass of white dwarf star LAWD 37. It is "56 percent the mass of our ...

In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...

"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." ...

A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has investigated an exoplanet that’s super cool — literally. The huge planet, which is six ...

The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion years ...

Scientists have discovered two rare white dwarfs—which are among the dimmest stars in the universe—that feature changes in their surface composition caused by magnetic fields. This brings the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Star symbols are the now seven confirmed double-faced white dwarfs, including J0847+4824 and J0856+1611 presented in this work. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal (2025). DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adbd3a ...

The trailer for the dark fantasy horror film The Death of Snow White shows how it's not a Disney film with its bloodthirsty ...