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

One was a hypothetical white dwarf that’s passed through much of its life cycle and was thought to be inhospitable to life.

A slowly cooling stellar ember called a white dwarf with a scar on its face is providing new insight into the behavior of certain "cannibal" stars at the end of their life cycle.

Astronomers have discovered a "teenage vampire" dead star in the process of devouring a companion star during a short-lived, "missing link" phase of its evolution.

Eventually, white dwarfs should cool into black dwarfs, but black dwarfs are only theoretical; the universe is not old enough for the first white dwarfs to sufficiently cool and make the transition.

His model found that white dwarfs can fuel both processes simultaneously. The discovery of this potential Earth-like similarity could change the trajectory of the search for life in the universe.

Could white dwarf stars host habitable exoplanets that might support life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international team of ...

White dwarf planets, remnants of dying stars, might surprisingly sustain life in their habitable zones for billions of years. A new study explores their potential as cosmic cradles for evolution.

European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took photos a rare supernova roughly 300 years after it happened ...