World's largest digital camera observes cosmos, capturing detailed images of galaxies, asteroids, and stars changing ...

Scientists have discovered two rare white dwarfs—which are among the dimmest stars in the universe—that feature changes in their surface composition caused by magnetic fields. This brings the ...

After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is retiring. The European Space Agency’s space-based observatory known as Gaia ...

A dramatic cosmic event is winding up to occur right in our backyard. Astronomers have spotted a pair of stars bound for collision, located just 150 light-years away.

That eliminates any main sequence stars, leaving a white dwarf as the only likely answer. But that's not the only thing that's orbiting the central star of ν Octantis.