A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's ...

Astronomers have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact Earth-sized stellar ember - that is creating a colorful shockwave ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Red dwarfs dominate the neighborhood and often host rocky worlds in temperate orbits. Yet their environments may hinder complex ...

White dwarf stars, like this one shown shrouded by a planetary nebula, are much smaller than stars like our Sun. NASA/R. Ciardullo (PSU)/H. Bond (STScI) The Sun will someday die. This will happen when ...

A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...

Are Sun-like stars the only stars where Earth-like worlds exist? This is what a recent study presented this morning at the ...

Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located about 145 light-years away, is still consuming the rocky remains of its former ...

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 ...

Using the Subaru Telescope's wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny ...

The presence of a powerful structure around a white dwarf called a nebula has astronomers scratching their heads.