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 ...

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

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

Astronomers observed a white dwarf and subdwarf 4,000 light-years away, spiralling toward collision, testing Einstein's ...

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 ...

A 33-year-old Fort White woman was killed in a two-vehicle crash late Nov. 11 in Columbia County, according to a report from the Florida Highway Patrol. According to the report, a vehicle being driven ...

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 ...

In an ancient star system expected to be stable and dormant, scientists found a 3 billion-year-old white dwarf star still tearing apart massive quantities of rock. “The rate we’ve seen rock consumed ...

Police said the vehicle crashed into barricades on E St NW and 17th St NW by the White House in Washington DC, an area of the ...

In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and collapse under its own gravity, becoming a white dwarf. Though Earth-sized, this dense remnant will retain much of the ...

The California Highway Patrol is looking for the driver of a white Chevrolet Silverado who left the scene of a major-injury collision on Crows Landing Road in south Modesto on Friday morning. Officers ...

President Trump’s upcoming ballroom will be bigger than the White House. Recent renderings obtained by CBS News show that the ballroom—which Trump has been obsessing over for some time now—shows a ...