Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...

One is a hypothetical white dwarf that's passed through much of its life cycle and is on a slow path to stellar death. The other subject is Kepler-62, a "main sequence" star at a similar phase in ...

Scientists already know that a planet must be in the “Goldilocks zone”—not too hot and not too cold—to have liquid water, a ...

"The diversity of ways that white dwarf stars can blow up is much greater than previously expected." There are a lot of ways for dead stars to blow their tops. Astronomers discovered this ...

The life cycle for a particular star depends on ... In this instance, the star becomes a white dwarf which fades and changes colour as it cools.

Moreover, there’s evidence of a white dwarf companion. The discovery is a close match for one made last year, and confirms the type of system that creates these signals, although we still don ...

The life cycle for a particular star depends on ... In this instance, the star becomes a white dwarf which fades and changes colour as it cools.