About 8,150 light-years from Earth, a white dwarf star named Gaia22ayj has intrigued astronomers. Its unusual behavior, ...

The 'Goldilocks Zones' of the TRAPPIST-1 system and our own solar system. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Whyte and colleagues wanted to know if a planet orbiting a white dwarf in a constricting ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

Astronomers at the University of Toronto (U of T) have discovered the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence stars – “dead” remnants and "living" stars – in young star clusters.