Scientists have revealed why some white dwarfs mysteriously stop cooling—changing ideas on just how old stars really are and what happens to them when they die. Today, new research published in Nature ...

Could dying stars hold the secret to looking younger? New evidence from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope suggests that white dwarf stars could continue to burn hydrogen in the final stages of their lives ...

White dwarfs that form through the evolution of a single star have atmospheres composed of hydrogen and helium. The core of the white dwarf is typically composed mostly of carbon and oxygen or oxygen ...

A smaller white dwarf star (left) pulls material from a larger star into a swirling accretion disk. The pair is called an “intermediate polar,” and MIT astronomers used powerful telescopes to measure ...

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