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

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

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

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

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

T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), also known as the Blaze Star, is a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth. It ...

Learn how gravity and mass are pulling two stars into tighter, faster orbit around each other, with an explosive collision ...

A type Ia supernova occurs when a white dwarf draws hydrogen from a companion. But Sirius A and B are too widely separated ...

A binary star system about 150 light years from Earth, right on our cosmic doorstep, is on track to collide as a type 1a ...

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

By Alimat Aliyeva A group of European, British, and American astronomers has discovered 34 binary white dwarf systems i ...

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 ...