Regular stars collapse and die once they run out of fuel for their nuclear reactions, but the white dwarfs just sit there, hanging out, for eternity.

Recent scientific analysis of dead stars’ remnants has offered a chilling glimpse into the Sun’s future demise, shedding ...

Scientists have long held that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, driven by a mysterious but measurable ...

Not long after, it will undergo gravitational collapse and blow off its outer layers, leaving behind a dense remnant known as ...

The Earth will be swallowed by the Sun, or torn to pieces - a bleak prospect recently proposed by scientists, but in the very ...

For several decades, evidence has suggested that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Crucial to those estimates ...

In roughly five billion years, scientists warn that our sun will burn the last of its hydrogen fuel and begin expanding into ...

Astronomers have identified a white dwarf system, LSPM J0207+3331, that continues to accrete material from its former planetary system 3 billion years after the star’s death, as reported by Universe ...

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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 ...

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 illustration shows a 3-billion-year-old white dwarf star accreting material from the remnants of its former planetary system. Gravitational instabilities caused a surviving planet to ...