Astronomers have uncovered an extraordinary discovery in the cosmos: a binary star system consisting of two white dwarf stars ...

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

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 ...

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

This image of the Helix Nebula, released on March 4, 2025, shows a potentially destructive white dwarf at the nebula's center ...

The nearby T Coronae Borealis system could still explode any day now, but calculations suggest the next best chance for fireworks is later this year.

T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), also known as the Blaze Star, is a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth. It ...

Stargazers watched the skies with bated breath on Thursday night in hopes that T Coronae Borealis, a system consisting of a ...

But we may get disappointed again as NASA said in a statement this January that the explosion will occur soon, and 'soon' ...

Astronomers have identified the source of strange radio flashes: a binary system containing a white dwarf, the remnant of a ...

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