In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...

Unlike main-sequence stars, white dwarfs experience continuous cooling, meaning their habitable zones shift over time. A planet must be close to a white dwarf to receive sufficient heat ...

The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion years ...

Pulsars are highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars emitting a beam of electromagnetic radiation. The most rapidly rotating pulsars, with rotation periods below 30 milliseconds, are known as ...

That isn't the case with white dwarfs, which form when stars like the sun run out of fuel for nuclear fusion, shedding their outer layers as their cores collapse and forming a cooling stellar ember.