A nearby cosmic ticking time bomb has been found! Just 150 light years away, a pair of white dwarf stars are on a death ...

University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high-mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light ...

Stargazers watched the skies with bated breath on Thursday night in hopes that T Coronae Borealis, a system consisting of a hot, red giant star and a cool, white dwarf star about 3,000 light-years ...

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Astronomers have spotted a red dwarf star in a system that is almost certainly ... although we still don’t understand the details of how. Recent advances in radio telescopes have helped ...

When they reach the end of their long evolutions, smaller stars—those up to eight times as massive as our own sun—typically become white dwarfs. These ancient stars are incredibly dense.

In particular, the results suggest that white dwarf systems may be worth a look as this hunt continues. "We're giving them the confidence that these star systems are worth investing time and money ...

A recent paper submitted to The Astrophysical Journal and currently available on the arXiv preprint server took another look at some ... white dwarf stars that are paired up in a binary with ...