Many stars die spectacularly when they explode as supernovae. During these violent explosions, they leave behind thick, ...

The 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows of 198 distinguished individuals working across 53 disciplines was selected from a pool of nearly 3,500 applicants, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation ...

"Weirdly enough, reheating a hard boiled egg in a microwave is a hazard. Hard-boiled eggs explode in the microwave because a ...

Astronomers have obtained remarkably detailed images of two stellar explosions -- called novae -- just days after they began.

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...

Some white dwarfs in rapid binary orbits are far hotter and larger than theory predicts. Researchers found that powerful tidal forces between them generate enough heat to inflate their sizes and ...

In an ancient star system expected to be stable and dormant, scientists found a 3 billion-year-old white dwarf star still tearing apart massive quantities of rock. “The rate we’ve seen rock consumed ...

In the hunt for extraterrestrial life, we usually look for planets orbiting sun-like stars and icy moons. But there is another possible candidate—planets circling white dwarfs, the hot, dense remnants ...

Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf star, offering the clearest evidence yet that icy, life-delivering objects ...

Some stars die quietly, ending as compact embers called white dwarfs. A rare few do something extreme, racing through the Milky Way so fast they can escape its pull, a class called hypervelocity white ...

Astronomers find an explanation for the fastest stars in the galaxy while uncovering a new mechanism for a supernova explosion. Credit: Technion illustration Astronomers call a special kind of ...