In 23 billion years, these two white dwarf stars will collide. Then, they'll explore. Here's why scientists say this ...

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear ...

When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.

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

Every star that hangs upon the evening firmament will one day die, its lights snuffed and its fires cooling in the dwindling ...

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

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

Skywatchers are scanning the night sky for an explosion that happened 3,000 years ago. A nova called T Coronae Borealis, ...

Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a supernova, appearing ...

University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a ...

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