How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's ...

NASA has taken a surprising new look at a white dwarf star called EX Hydrae, revealing details that astronomers have never ...

Using NASA’s IXPE, astronomers captured an unprecedented view of a white dwarf star actively feeding on material from a companion. The data revealed giant columns of ultra-hot gas shaped by the star’s ...

The spectra measurements enable astronomers to figure out these stars’ age, spin rate, temperature, and location, among other ...

A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...

NASA’s IXPE has just revealed the hidden geometry of a white dwarf’s cosmic feeding frenzy—using X-rays to see what no ...

Are Sun-like stars the only stars where Earth-like worlds exist? This is what a recent study presented this morning at the ...

Carnegie's Luke Bouma presented exciting new research at the American Astronomical Society meeting revealing how large clumps ...

Kepler's supernova remnant is extremely exciting for astronomers – a rare example of a supernova for which we have a clear ...

NASA’s IXPE captures the first X-ray polarization data from a white dwarf system, detailing observations of EX Hydrae and ...

Though the characteristics of K-type stars make them favourable targets in the study of habitability, they haven't received ...

"While white dwarf stars may still give off some heat from residual nuclear activity in their outer layers, they no longer exhibit nuclear fusion at their cores. For this reason, not much ...