White dwarfs are the final stop for stars that aren’t massive enough to go out in a supernova. Think of them as the ...

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After the sun finally dies, billions of years in the future, Earth too will meet a grisly end. There are several ways that our home planet may be destroyed after the sun dies, possibly being swallowed ...

A newly discovered binary system, 1400 light-years away, comprises a brown dwarf orbiting a white dwarf (WD 0032-317). The brown dwarf's extreme temperature (approximately 7,700°C) is primarily due to ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to the ...

Astronomers recently spotted one of the most massive brown dwarfs known, an object between 75 and 90 times the mass of Jupiter with a beyond-scalding dayside temperature of 8,000 K (13,940° Fahrenheit ...

Astronomers have just discovered a new Earth-sized exoplanet around SPECULOOS-3, an 'ultracool dwarf' star as small as Jupiter, twice as cold as our Sun, and located 55 light-years from Earth. After ...

Astronomers have imaged a very young brown dwarf, or failed star, in a tight orbit around a young nearby sun-like star. An international team led by University of Hawaii astronomers Beth Biller and ...

Although we don't have to worry about it for a few billion years, the sun is inexorably dying, the only question is what's left after it's gone.