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

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

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

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

This event will occur in about 23 billion years, yet in only 4 seconds do both stars explode (Credit ... important types of cosmic explosions. The system is the first confirmed double white dwarf pair ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

Astronomers used ALMA to observe Proxima Centauri and found frequent, intense flares that could destroy atmospheres of nearby ...

The powerful James Webb Space Telescope has captured a series of remote planets in the HR 8799 star system that are 130 light years away in the Milky Way, and they are very strikin ...

On this scale a circle two and a half miles in diameter would include all the members of our solar system; but on this scale the nearest fixed stars would be nearly as distant as is our moon.

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...