When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft approached Ceres, the team expected dust, craters, and silence. Instead, the dwarf planet ...

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 ...

In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and collapse under its own gravity, becoming a white dwarf. Though Earth-sized, this dense remnant will retain much of the ...

A 3-billion-year-old white dwarf, the core of a dead star, consumed an exoplanet from its former planetary system. Credit: NASA / ESA / Joseph Olmsted illustration A dead star core about 145 ...

A team of scientists at the Institute for Advanced Study School of Natural Sciences in Princeton, New Jersey, might have found a new dwarf planet, potentially leading to more evidence of a theoretical ...