The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in East Lansing, Michigan.

An international team of researchers, led by scientists from GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany, has studied r-process ...

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In other cases, another member of the system will go on to form a second white dwarf. If gravitational instabilities bring ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

A stronomers have finally found evidence for a proposed mechanism for a special kind of supernova, known as a Type Ia supernova. It was proposed that at least some of them experience a double ...

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” supernova, where an initial helium blast on the star’s surface triggers a ...

An explosion captured in a new image could help astronomers to better understand the "standard candles" at the center of a ...

Discovery of 257Sg and its K-isomer reveals new insights into superheavy element fission and quantum stability mechanisms.