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

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

People often think about archaeology happening deep in jungles or inside ancient pyramids. However, a team of astronomers has ...

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 ...

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

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

The nearby T Coronae Borealis system could still explode any day now, but calculations suggest the next best chance for fireworks is later this year.

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

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

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

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