Thousands of light-years from Earth, the dramatic death throes of a giant star are playing out. It's part of a star system called Wolf-Rayet 104 (WR 104), also known famously as the Pinwheel Nebula.

A nearby cosmic ticking time bomb has been found! Just 150 light years away, a pair of white dwarf stars are on a death spiral, destined to explode in a type 1a supernova. This discovery confirms long ...

The so-called "Death Star," which is also famed for looking ... assumed to be — with the optimistic upshot that, when it does explode, the Earth won't be caught in the crossfire.

A faint star in a constellation visible from the Northern Hemisphere after dark may explode on Thursday in what's going to be a once in 80 years occurrence.

It's impossible to predict exactly when the star will explode, however, scientists predict Betelgeuse ... For those who can vaguely recall their school science lessons, the death of a star is marked ...

An artist’s concept of the famous Wolf-Rayet 104 “pinwheel star,” previously nicknamed the “Death Star.” An artist’s concept of the famous Wolf-Rayet 104 “pinwheel star ...

It’s hard to predict when the star system will explode since its eruptions haven’t been observed that many times. Astronomers have been observing the Blaze Star, and found that it has spent ...

was predicted to explode in a thermonuclear eruption between April and September 2024. For sky-watchers, the failure of the star to suddenly become visible to the naked eye during winter — for ...

T Coronae Borealis, a faint star in the Northern Crown constellation, is on the verge of exploding in a nova, which occurs only once every 80 years, researchers have said. This spectacular ...