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

Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare pair of spiraling stars about 150 light-years away, and they are headed on a [… ...

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 ...

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

A Type 1a supernova represents one of the most powerful and consistent explosions in our universe. These spectacular events ...

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

Astronomers discovered two massive white dwarf stars in a binary system destined to trigger a rare quadruple detonation. This will occur about 22.6 billion years from now. Their eventual supernova ...

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

If it exploded today, this future supernova might be close enough to us to pose a threat, but the Sun will have burned out before it happens.

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

A nearby cosmic ticking time bomb has been found! Just 150 light years away, a pair of white dwarf stars are on a death ...