Astronomers have made a first-of-its-kind discovery — a white dwarf star with two completely different faces. White dwarfs are burnt remains of dead stars. Our sun will become a white dwarf in ...

The solar system of the far future is safe from a run-in with a runaway dead star. Last year, researchers looked at the trajectory of a rogue white dwarf star called WD 0810–353 with the Gaia ...

Astronomers have found a rare white dwarf star about 104 light-years away whose core appears to be transforming into an ultra-dense “cosmic diamond.” When some stars, such as the Sun ...

But a two-faced star? Yes, indeed. Scientists have observed a white dwarf star - a hot stellar remnant that is among the densest objects in the cosmos - that they have nicknamed Janus owing to the ...