A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...

The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion ...

"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." ...

Sure, we all know about the asteroid impact that is thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs, but did you know that the Earth ...

Astronomers are closely monitoring the binary star system T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), anticipating a rare nova eruption that ...

The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high-mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light ...

Astronomers have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarfs are the cause of most type 1a supernova explosions. While the ...

When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.

A dramatic cosmic event is winding up to occur right in our backyard. Astronomers have spotted a pair of stars bound for ...

These explosions happen when a white dwarf, which is already an ultra-dense star remnant, takes in too much mass.

University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light ...