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The role-playing game, largely powered by participants’ imaginations, continues to attract fans half a century after it was launched

As April's total solar eclipse approaches, scientists say astrophiles are in for another cosmic treat in coming months. Dubbed by NASA as a "once-in-a-lifetime viewing...

Traditionally, white dwarfs are considered the cold and dim remains of stars that have exhausted their nuclear fuel....

A zombie star feasting on its surrounding planets and asteroids hasn't escaped the cannibalistic process unscathed. Resulting debris has given this white dwarf a metal scar.

A slowly cooling stellar ember called a white dwarf with a scar on its face is providing new insight into the behavior of certain "cannibal" stars at the end of their life cycle.

White dwarfs —- the hyper-dense remnant cores of stars like our Sun —- could still harbor planets that could support intelligent civilizations, says says astronomer.

Astronomers have observed a so-called standard candle supernova generating clouds of cosmic dust, bringing us a step closer to understanding the life and death cycle of stars.

A team from Tsinghua University has shed light on an extraordinary binary system, dubbed TMTS J0526, through the use of the TMTS telescope (Tsinghua University-Ma Huateng...

Astronomers have discovered a remarkable binary system in which a dead white dwarf star orbits a tiny stellar companion 72 times in 24 hours. The observation could help explain how tiny stars are born.

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