"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." ...

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.

Astronomers find a binary star system that will detonate as a type Ia supernova, offering direct evidence for a top theory ...

People often think about archaeology happening deep in jungles or inside ancient pyramids. However, a team of astronomers has ...

These explosions happen when a white dwarf, which is already an ultra-dense star remnant, takes in too much mass.

What's the deadliest part of a supernova explosion ... First off, there's the shock wave from the explosion itself. You have a large chunk of a dead star accelerating away from it and reaching ...

Astronomers discovered two massive white dwarf stars in a binary system destined to trigger a rare quadruple detonation. This will occur about 22.6 billion years from now. Their eventual supernova ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified AT 2023adsv, a supernova that occurred 11.4 billion years ago. This stellar explosion, from a star 20 times the size of the ...

Scientists have announced that a dim star in a constellation easily visible after dark from the Northern Hemisphere may be on the verge of exploding. The binary star system, called T Corona ...

Nova explosions occur in semi-detached binary systems containing a cool late-type star and a white dwarf ... one outcome of which is a supernova explosion." This graph shows the near-infrared ...