A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow shock" as it zooms through the Milky Way. The cosmic zombie is also ripping ...

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 ...

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) ...

Could an ocean – likely needed to sustain life – even survive on a planet orbiting close to a dead star? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

On Jan. 31, 1783, William Herschel was creating a catalog of double stars when he spotted 40 Eridani B. This dim white object ...

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 ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact Earth-sized stellar ember - that is creating a colorful shockwave as it moves through space, ...