Today, we observe that the blue lurker is orbiting a white dwarf star—the burned out remains of the massive merger. "We know ...

Traditional pulsars, produced by neutron stars, produce radio signals ... containing more blue than a typical red dwarf of ...

They discovered a binary system containing an M dwarf star and a white dwarf, whose orbital period matches up with the period of the radio pulses. M dwarfs, also called red dwarfs, are low-mass ...

Stock image: An illustration of a white dwarf star in space. Stock image: An illustration of a white dwarf star in space. iStock / Getty Images Plus These unique white dwarfs exhibit different ...

"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." A pair of rare, compact white dwarf stars that are set to collide in about 23 ...

WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear destined to die in an extraordinarily ...