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The data confirmed the white-dwarf companion and detected gamma-ray emission associated with the pulsar. More significantly, they uncovered…

Artistic impression of the double white dwarf binary eRASSU J0608. Credit: Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics A…

Type Ia supernovae are powerful stellar explosions that occur when a white dwarf is pushed into a thermonuclear…

ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An artist’s illustration showing a star and a planet. Astronomers have detected a new…

For a long time, Earth’s ending seemed settled. In about five billion years, the sun will swell into…

Two exotic white dwarf merger remnants have been found to share a striking set of unusual properties, including…

A cosmic first has been achieved. For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer…

Sometimes progress in space science does not arrive with a flash. It comes quietly, through patient observation, and…

Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located…

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The universe continues to hold many surprises, as is the case with this interstellar visitor present in our…

White dwarf stars, like this one shown shrouded by a planetary nebula, are much smaller than stars like…

Astronomers combined 16.7 years of gamma-ray data with 4.9 years of FAST radio observations to confirm a 3.2-millisecond pulsar has two companions, including a Sun-like star on a 73.5-year orbit