In 23 billion years, these two white dwarf stars will collide. Then, they'll explore. Here's why scientists say this ...

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

A nearby cosmic ticking time bomb has been found! Just 150 light years away, a pair of white dwarf stars are on a death ...

Every star that hangs upon the evening firmament will one day die, its lights snuffed and its fires cooling in the dwindling ...

The Oukaimeden Observatory recently announced, in partnership with an international network of amateur and professional astronomers, the discovery of a previously unknown supernova remnant, now named ...

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

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

The researchers say the star system will explode in a rare "quadruple detonation". As the white dwarf gets heavier, the ...

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

Just 150 light years away from us, two white dwarf stars are hurtling towards a gigantic explosion. It is inevitable, but also far in the future.

Scientists have found the heaviest known pair of dead stars in our galaxy — a rare system they believe will one day explode ...

University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a ...