Learn how gravity and mass are pulling two stars into tighter, faster orbit around each other, with an explosive collision ...

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

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

Just 150 light years away from us, two white dwarf stars are hurtling towards a gigantic explosion. It is inevitable, but also far in the future.

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

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

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

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