The weird outbursts of a distant supermassive black hole may be caused by a death-defying white dwarf walking a cosmic tight ...

A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls. Astronomers have discovered a rare ...

"We have by and large been ignoring triples in models and simulations — we're just starting to understand how these types of ...

An international team of astronomers has conducted multiwavelength observations of a variable star designated Gaia22ayj.

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

The fastest-spinning white dwarf ever discovered is a shrinking cosmic vampire feasting on a stellar companion. A feeding ...

It appears this white dwarf is not making a death plunge but rather has stabilized its orbit around the black hole ...

Regular pulses of X-ray radiation emanating from a supermassive black hole could be explained by a white dwarf star on the ...

The name “blue lurker” might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open star ...

Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...

Carbon-rich cosmic dust comes from different sources and spreads out into space, where it's necessary for life and for the ...