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

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

This discovery offers a glimpse into the dramatic and explosive fates awaiting some of the universe's most fascinating ...

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 spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear ...

"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 ...

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

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

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

We expect that [T Coronae Borealis] will erupt any night now, any month now,” Bradley Schaefer, a Louisiana State University ...

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