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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

The subject of today's NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week is the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530. NGC 5530 ...

A group of European, British, and American astronomers has discovered 34 binary white dwarf systems in the immediate vicinity ...

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