A flash of powerful X-ray light coming from a nova explosion on a white dwarf star has caught the attention of astronomers using the Chinese–European Einstein Probe. This nova is especially ...

Chinese astronomers have analyzed the data from ... Cataclysmic variables (CVs) are binary star systems consisting of a white dwarf primary accreting matter from a normal star companion.

Ceres is a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It's the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth.

In the year 185 C.E, Chinese astronomers spotted a supernova and dubbed it the "guest star." The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new dwarf galaxy, Pegasus VII, has been discovered in the halo of the Andromeda galaxy, approximately 2.4 million light years away. It is the faintest known ...

In fact, scientists didn't really expect that stars would even be able to still form at all in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, an image of which the James Webb Telescope recently captured in ...

"The diversity of ways that white dwarf stars can blow up is much greater than previously expected." There are a lot of ways for dead stars to blow their tops. Astronomers discovered this ...