The theory of general relativity is packed with strange predictions about how space and time are affected by massive bodies.…
Astronomers have discovered a large Neptune-sized planet orbiting a white dwarf star. The planet is four times bigger than the…
A new study by a pair of astronomers has shown that planets orbiting white dwarfs will still be emitting radio…
Stars live and die on epic time scales. Tens of millions of years, hundreds of millions of years, even billions…
Sad fact of the Universe is that all stars will die, eventually. And when they do, what happens to their…
A citizen scientist recently discovered a white dwarf star that has multiple dust rings, a finding which could force a…
Our understanding of the universe, and of the Milky Way, is built on an edifice of individual pieces of knowledge,…
New research using some of the latest Gaia mission data has revealed what happens to stars like our Sun once…
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Dr. Natalie Batalha is an astrophysicist at NASA Ames Research Center and project scientist…
The discovery of a millisecond pulsar orbiting a low-mass white dwarf star has astronomers puzzled, mainly because its orbit defies…