The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the ...

Jupiter-like planet 8 UMi b, named Halla, orbits its host red giant star Baekdu closely. The red giant's merger with a white dwarf star questions how Halla could exist. Credit: Space.com | animation ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars—a real-life 'twist' ...

The two brightest nighttime stars available in the Minnesota and Wisconsin sky are Sirius and Arcturus. April is the only ...

A red giant star and white dwarf orbit each other in this animation of a nova. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Unlike other astronomical events we can see, like a planet conjunction or a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed a planetary nebula designated Messier 57 (also known as NGC 6720), dubbed the Ring Nebula. As a result, ...

The “Blaze Star” is a rare nova that could produce an explosion visible with the naked eye in the next few nights, located about 3,000 light years from Earth and part of the ...

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear ...