C.E, Chinese astronomers spotted a supernova and dubbed it the "guest star." The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Víctor M ...

The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion ...

The brightest star in the nighttime sky, Sirius, or the Dog Star, greatly outshines its white dwarf companion, Sirius B. At 8.6 light-years away, Sirius B is the nearest known white dwarf star to ...

An international team of astronomers has performed optical photometric, polarimetric and spectroscopic observations of a ...

Stock image: An illustration of a white dwarf star in space. Stock image: An illustration of a white dwarf star in space. iStock / Getty Images Plus These unique white dwarfs exhibit different ...

This form of explosion, known as a "type Ia supernova" occurs when a white dwarf—the dense core remnant of a star—builds too much mass and is unable to withstand its own gravity and explodes.

How do you measure the mass of a star? Well, according to famed cosmologist Albert Einstein, you can try to solve this problem by looking at the subtle bending of starlight as it encounters the ...