The smallest white dwarf star ever found is about the same size as Earth’s moon, but more massive than the sun. It appears to be shrinking, which could lead to a colossal explosion. Ilaria Caiazzo at ...

This illustration shows the average brown dwarf is much smaller than our sun and low mass stars and only slightly larger than the planet Jupiter. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible ...

A newly discovered white dwarf star (right) is only slightly larger than the moon (left). Giuseppe Parisi Astronomers have discovered the smallest white dwarf star ever documented around 130 ...

Telescope observations have confirmed a weird property of white dwarf stars: As they pack on more mass, they shrink in size. White dwarfs, the stripped cores of dead stars, are thought to have this ...