A tiny chunk of dead star just 731 light-years away has presented astronomers with a shimmering puzzle: a powerful, glowing ...

As stars move through space, they push away material and create a so-called bow shock ahead of them akin to a curved ridge of ...

How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's ...

Astronomers have observed a rainbow-shaped bow shock around a nearby white dwarf. Strong magnetic fields may drive the ...

NASA’s IXPE has peered into a nearby white dwarf system, revealing towering X-ray emitting gas columns and hidden stellar ...

NASA’s IXPE has just revealed the hidden geometry of a white dwarf’s cosmic feeding frenzy—using X-rays to see what no ...

A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...

Using NASA’s IXPE, astronomers captured an unprecedented view of a white dwarf star actively feeding on material from a companion. The data revealed giant columns of ultra-hot gas shaped by the star’s ...

NASA’s IXPE captures the first X-ray polarization data from a white dwarf system, detailing observations of EX Hydrae and ...

Though the characteristics of K-type stars make them favourable targets in the study of habitability, they haven't received ...

Are Sun-like stars the only stars where Earth-like worlds exist? This is what a recent study presented this morning at the ...