Astronomers have discovered the smallest yet most massive white dwarf star ever seen. According to a new study published Thursday in the journal Nature, the "very special" star has a mass greater than ...

NASA's Webb telescope spotted what is likely the smallest brown dwarf ever observed. Brown dwarfs are some of the most unusual objects in the universe. They aren't a star or a planet. In theory, such ...

Astronomers have discovered the smallest but most massive white dwarf ever found. The tiny star is only the size of our Moon, but packs in more mass than the Sun, meaning it’s approaching the ...

Only a smidge bigger than the moon, a newfound white dwarf is the smallest of its kind known. The white dwarf, a type of remnant left behind when certain stars peter out, has a radius of about 2,100 ...

This illustration shows the rapidly rotating, highly magnetized white dwarf with the smallest radius ever found, with Earth's moon shown nearby for a size comparison. With a radius of ~2,140 km, just ...

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What is a white dwarf? Simply put, it's what stars such as our Sun become after they have expelled all of their nuclear energy. Now, astronomers have located a white dwarf that has seemingly taken the ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning view of a star cluster that contains some of the smallest brown dwarfs ever identified. A brown dwarf, also sometimes known as a failed ...

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." Astronomers have discovered a collection of tiny galaxies located roughly 3 million ...

A first ever detection of a coronal mass ejection from a small red dwarf could have big consequences for life on any nearby ...