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 found a pair of chunky white dwarf stars—think of them as superdense stellar leftovers—spinning closely ...

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

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

The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

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

Astronomers have spotted signs that Betelgeuse, the closest supergiant star to Earth, could be about to explode as a ...

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

The stars in this rare high mass and compact binary star system are on a collision course with one another that should result in a special kind of supernova. Astronomers expect them to explode as ...

The subject of today's NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week is the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530. NGC 5530 ...

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