White dwarfs are the compact remnants of stars that have stopped nuclear burning, a fate that will eventually befall our sun.

Old binary star systems may contain stars that are even hotter than scientists previously believed. White dwarfs are the dense, compact remains left behind when stars exhaust their nuclear fuel, a ...

A new study from Kyoto University has shown that white dwarfs, can be significantly hotter than expected when locked in tight ...

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...

The tides are changing for white dwarfs Old stars in binary systems may be even hotter than previously thought. (Nanowerk ...

If you think you've met the wildest exoplanet yet, you haven't learned about TOI-4507 b. This strange world breaks almost ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A white dwarf throws off shells of gas like a butterfly leaving a cocoon . Here the bright dot in ...

Artist's impression of what the Moon looked like during the tidal-heating event. There would have been intense volcanic activity everywhere. The early Earth would have loomed much larger in the sky ...

Io, one of Jupiter’s Galilean satellites, is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Images from spacecraft have shown molten lava erupting along walls that dam giant lava lakes and ...