A pair of circling white dwarf stars located on our "cosmic doorstep" are doomed to explode in a rare, quadruple supernova ...

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 ...

You'll be able to read a book by the light of the Betelgeuse supernova at midnight. But it will actually be painful to look at because, unlike the full moon that is this gorgeous disk in the sky ...

The T Coronae Borealis, also known as T CrB, is a recurrent nova that bursts about every 80 years. Astronomers are pointing ...

SGR 0501+4516 was previously thought to be the side effect of a supernova called HB9, as the two are tantalizingly close in the sky over Earth. However, a decade of investigation with the Hubble ...

Astronomers have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarfs are the cause of most type 1a supernova explosions. While the pair are in close orbit, the heavier of the two theoretically accumulates ...

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 most famous star constellations.

According to astronomers, the Betelgeuse red supergiant star, appears to be on its last legs due to its increasingly volatile behaviour in the past couple of years. Situated in the Orion constellation ...