"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

When low-mass stars die, they collapse under their own weight until their centers act in some ways like a solid. A star like the Sun will collapse at the end to be about twice the size of Earth ...

Related: 25 gorgeous nebula photos that capture the beauty of the universe Our own sun will also die as a white dwarf, which ...

Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick A white dwarf star is basically the corpse of a low-mass star that lost its outer layers. That can happen when a star runs out its fuel supply needed to ...

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear ...

But Earth has faced at least five mass extinctions ... ago and another 445 million years ago—may have started with dying stars light-years away. Supernovas and Ice Ages A new study suggests ...

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 ...

Radioactive elements including Aluminium-26 (Al-26) were fused in this dying massive star and got injected into our young solar system. The researchers used computer models to look at whether ...

However, in these systems, the first-born neutron star typically gains extra mass from its companion, through a process called accretion, making it difficult to determine its original birth mass.