AUSTIN, Texas — University of Texas at Austin astronomers Michael H. Montgomery and Kurtis A. Williams, along with graduate student Steven DeGennaro, have predicted and confirmed the existence of a ...

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A naked-eye star’s 50-year mystery is solved—its bizarre X-rays come from a hidden, feeding white dwarf.

How can scientists determine if exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf stars are habitable? This is what a study recently presented at ...

What can binary stars comprised of two different types of stars teach astronomers about stellar evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as a team ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has identified TOI-4616 b, an Earth-sized planet transiting a cool M4 dwarf star ...

Type Ia supernovae represent the dramatic thermonuclear explosions of white dwarf stars, typically triggered in binary systems by processes such as accretion from a companion or the merger of two ...

The six known DAQ type white dwarfs exhibit log (C/H) > –0.5 and appear in optical spectra. WD 0525+526 shows how many merger remnants may hide beneath pure hydrogen layers, detectable only in ...

For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your place in the universe feel both ordinary and strange. Two facts sharpen the ...

An artist's impression of Gamma Cassiopeia. (ESA/Y. Nazé) For 50 years, astronomers have been watching in bafflement as a ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has unveiled TOI-4616 b, an Earth-sized planet orbiting a nearby M-dwarf star. Published in a March study on the preprint server arXiv, the findings ...