Astronomers found that a 3-billion-year-old white dwarf, LSPM J0207+3331, is still feasting on the metal-rich remains of a shattered world. (CREDIT: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger ...

There's a whole slew of objects that astronomers aren't sure whether to classify as "failed stars" or "overgrown planets." ...

While typical eclipses last a few days or weeks, this one lasted nearly 200 days.

A nearby white dwarf is generating three times more energy than expected, hinting at unknown magnetic processes.

One of the longest stellar dimming events ever observed was likely caused by the gigantic saucer-like rings of either an unseen brown dwarf or "super-Jupiter" blocking its host star's light, ...

Dark matter remains one of science's deepest mysteries. It makes up about 25% of our universe, yet scientists only observe its gravitational effects. Although invisible, researchers continue searching ...

This artist’s impression shows a sunset seen from the super-Earth Gliese 667 Cc. Astronomers have estimated that there are tens of billions of such rocky worlds orbiting faint red dwarf stars in the ...

Are Sun-like stars the only stars where Earth-like worlds exist? This is what a recent study presented this morning at the 2026 meeting of the American Astronomical Society hopes to address as a team ...

When astronomers turn our radio telescopes out towards space, we sometimes detect sporadic bursts of radio waves originating from across the vast expanse of the universe. We call them "radio ...

White dwarf stars represent the evolutionary endpoints of medium- and low-mass stars, comprising the dense, electron-degenerate cores left after nuclear fuel exhaustion. In binary systems, ...