A pair of circling white dwarf stars located on our "cosmic doorstep" are doomed to explode in a rare, quadruple supernova ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare pair of white dwarfs destined to explode in a spectacular supernova in Earth’s cosmic ...

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

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

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.

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

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Scientists have found the heaviest known pair of dead stars in our galaxy — a rare system they believe will one day explode ...

By Alimat Aliyeva A group of European, British, and American astronomers has discovered 34 binary white dwarf systems i ...

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