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

An artistic rendering of the moment when the first white dwarf explodes and spews material at the second white dwarf, which itself is about to explode. Credit University of Warwick/Mark Garlick ...

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

When they reach the end of their long evolutions, smaller stars—those up to eight times as massive as our own sun—typically become white dwarfs. These ancient stars are incredibly dense.