This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion ...

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

A 40-year-old space enigma has been unraveled: a white dwarf star at the center of the Helix Nebula has been annihilating a ...

When T CrB does explode, it will look like a very bright star in the night sky in the Corona Borealis constellation. People ...

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

No other known white dwarf binary has a larger combined mass ... times closer to each other than our solar system's innermost planet Mercury is to the sun, completing an orbit every roughly ...

Astronomers have spotted two huge white dwarf stars which they say are destined to explode together in a supernova - 22 ...

Astronomers have identified two massive white dwarf stars in a binary system within the Milky Way, poised for a rare ...

Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a supernova, appearing ...

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