Some white dwarfs in rapid binary orbits are far hotter and larger than theory predicts. Researchers found that powerful tidal forces between them generate enough heat to inflate their sizes and ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A large, white blimp was spotted flying over San Francisco on Tuesday morning. The airship, which was visible across the Bay in Oakland and on the west end of Alameda, was seen ...

In an ancient star system expected to be stable and dormant, scientists found a 3 billion-year-old white dwarf star still tearing apart massive quantities of rock. “The rate we’ve seen rock consumed ...

President Donald Trump’s project to build an expansive new White House ballroom officially broke ground Monday. Crews tore down the East Wing in only four days, despite Trump’s claim that the ballroom ...

The East Wing of the White House, the traditional headquarters for the first lady and her staff as well as the public entrance to the “people’s house,” was largely torn down this week to make way for ...

Demolition of the White House’s East Wing, itself a source of multiple controversies for more than 200 years, was completed Thursday. Excavators were spotted starting Monday tearing it apart. It was ...

The facade of the East Wing of the White House is demolished by work crews in Washington, DC on Oct. 22, 2025, the day the White House confirmed that the entire structure would be demolished. Senior ...

CORRECTION: PBS News has updated an Oct. 21 story withdrawn by The Associated Press that quoted White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt as saying over the summer that "nothing will be torn down" ...

A 3-billion-year-old white dwarf, the core of a dead star, consumed an exoplanet from its former planetary system. Credit: NASA / ESA / Joseph Olmsted illustration A dead star core about 145 ...

While future guests of the White House will be having a ball in its forthcoming ballroom, for which demolition began on Monday, the massive renovation isn’t the first of its scale at 1600 Pennsylvania ...

Impression of the 6.9 minute double white dwarf binary J1539+5027, composed of a tidally heated white dwarf (yellow) and its more compact companion (blue). It is about to start mass transferring.

WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to the ...