A rare breed of star recently discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope spins faster by feeding on its stellar siblings.

They found that it was accompanied by a white dwarf, the burned-out core of a ... evolutionary pathways quite so clearly. Whereas the life cycle of a single star can be predicted easily through ...

The Big Freeze The Big Freeze, also known as the Heat Death, is a scenario where the universe continues expanding ...

Many tales depict her as the mother of Lord Indra, the king of the deities and Vamana, the avatar of Vishnu in the form of a dwarf ... of the eternal cycle of life. According to Aditi’s legends ...

How do you define a cult classic? Is it a shoestring exploitation film from the world of Ed Wood? Off-beat movies made ...

You really can’t overstate the case for visiting Cape Town. First, there’s the in-your-face beauty of a craggy mountain range ...

Pat Carroll, of Darke County, Ohio, is at the forefront of breeding Netherland Dwarf rabbits with 30 years of experience in ...

Our white dwarf Sun will cool for billions upon billions of years, slowly fading away as a dark, solid carbon-oxygen ball.

"This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be able to live very close to an event horizon for a relatively extended period of time." Using the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope, astronomers have ...

The observations made using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton orbiting X-ray telescope appear to show a white dwarf nearing the point of no return - called the event horizon - as it orbits ...

Now, researchers report that they have caught a supermassive black hole in the act of eating a white dwarf, the last stage of evolution for stars like our Sun – but the white dwarf is not giving ...