Figuring out the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy—yet, it remains a challenge since ...

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

Astronomers uncover how massive stars form by tracking interstellar ammonia. Using the U.S. National Science Foundation ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

In other cases, another member of the system will go on to form a second white dwarf. If gravitational instabilities bring ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme — triggering stellar flares from their own ...

The research draws on two existing approaches to better estimate stars’ ages.

White Dwarf Discovery Could Transform How Scientists Measure the Universe In A Nutshell Astronomers found direct evidence ...

Astronomers have spotted an alien planet orbiting so closely to its home star, the planet's magnetic field is triggering ...

Learn about new observations that reveal an exoplanet is destroying itself by cuddling up to its host star, in an ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

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