Our Sun will become a white dwarf in about 7 billion years. At that point, it will no longer produce energy through nuclear fusion, having exhausted its fuel (hydrogen and helium). Just like the ...

Recently, there has even been the idea that habitable worlds might orbit white dwarfs. The study starts by stating the obvious. Any habitable world around a main-sequence star will likely be ...

An artist's concept shows a stream of matter trails a white dwarf (sphere at lower right) orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding a supermassive black hole. — Reuters WASHINGTON ...

24 on the preprint server arXiv, yield important insights into the properties of the system, proving that it contains a massive and fast-spinning white dwarf. HD 49798 is a bright blue star in the ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 18 — Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually increasing in frequency that seem to be coming from a ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually increasing in frequency that seem to be coming from a white dwarf ...

Recently, there has even been the idea that habitable worlds might orbit white dwarfs. We know some white dwarfs have planets, and despite lacking nuclear fusion, white dwarfs do emit enough light ...

Atlantic or Gulf, mainland or island, secluded or buzzing with activity—we love a beach any which way it comes. But we’d be lying if we didn’t admit to being a bit partial to white-sand beaches with ...

Yet another “Snow White” trailer was released today, and we got a better look at the seven dwarfs. Honestly, a clearer look isn’t helping. They look terrible! While I’m sure people worked very hard on ...

In a press conference last week at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Scott Wolk of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory presented his findings on Wolf 359, a red dwarf ...