Some white dwarfs in rapid binary orbits are far hotter and larger than theory predicts. Researchers found that powerful tidal forces between them generate enough heat to inflate their sizes and ...

Some 200 light years from Earth, the core of a dead star is circling a larger star in a macabre cosmic dance. The dead star ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray telescope, Hubble and more has narrowed down its age to ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected phosphine gas in the ancient brown dwarf Wolf 1130C, a discovery that contradicts years of predictions about how phosphorus behaves in ...

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President Donald Trump is reportedly not seeing eye to eye with the architect he tasked with building the new White House ...

A white dwarf star is undergoing the process of turning into a “cosmic diamond” as it begins to crystalise. The lullaby “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” talks about stars in the sky looking like diamonds ...

In October, workers quickly demolished the entire East Wing of the White House — which dated back to 1942 — in order to make ...

Originally the plan was for a 500-seat ballroom connected to the East Wing; the president now wants it to seat at least 1,350 ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a "ultra-massive white dwarf that formed when a white dwarf merged with another star," according to the Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit ...