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

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

It will be brighter than any planet. It will be almost as bright as the full moon. You'll be able to read a book by the light of the Betelgeuse supernova at midnight. But it will actually be ...

Astronomers have spotted signs that Betelgeuse, the closest supergiant star to Earth, could be about to explode as a ...

Betelgeuse is a red giant star that shines brightly in the night sky. It makes up one of the "shoulders" of Orion, one of the ...

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

Astronomers expect them to explode as a type 1a supernova that will one day shine 10 times brighter than our moon. The discovery is detailed in a study published April 4 in the journal Nature ...

Deep-sea samples reveal traces of past cosmic explosions, prompting researchers to seek further proof in lunar soil.

Fields has theorized about this cosmic rubble since the 1990s. But it wasn't until 2004 that researchers started sifting out supernova remnants from ocean samples. They found traces of a ...