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

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

Sure, we all know about the asteroid impact that is thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs, but did you know that the Earth ...

The explosion will happen through a rare process called a quadruple detonation, where one blast triggers a chain of others, ...

When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.

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

In 23 billion years, these two white dwarf stars will collide. Then, they'll explore. Here's why scientists say this ...

Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the magnetar called SGR 0501+4516 is traversing our galaxy ...

A star called T Corona Borealis may "go nova" next week, making the star briefly visible to the naked eye. It last happened in 1787, 1866 and 1946.

White dwarves are the compact, shriveled cores of once-mighty stars that have expelled their outer gas layers into space. In the new study, published April 4 in the journal Nature Astronomy ...

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