A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...

"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." ...

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

Discover the intriguing space explosion predicted in a rare double white dwarf system just 160 light-years away from Earth.

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

At the bottom of the ocean, evidence of what researchers are calling a “supernova graveyard” has been discovered. But what ...

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 ...

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

These explosions happen when a white dwarf, which is already an ultra-dense star remnant, takes in too much mass.

The researchers say the star system will explode in a rare "quadruple detonation". As the white dwarf gets heavier, the ...

When you think of archaeology, you might picture digging through ancient ruins or exploring hidden tombs. But scientists have ...

Supernova explosions are responsible for disseminating ... and generate a burst of gravitational waves—that is, ripples in space-time itself. In 2017, Chandra detected the afterglow of such ...