C.E, Chinese astronomers spotted a supernova and dubbed it the "guest star." The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Víctor M ...

Astronomers spot two stars the size of Earth headed toward a violent explosion - This discovery offers a glimpse into the ...

Scientists have discovered two rare white dwarfs—which are among the dimmest stars in the universe—that feature changes in their surface composition caused by magnetic fields. This brings the ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent ...

A pair of rare, compact white dwarf stars that are set to collide in about 23 billion years have been spotted by researchers at the University of Warwick. After converging, the binary star system ...

Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick A pair of circling white dwarf stars located on our "cosmic doorstep" are doomed to explode in a rare, quadruple supernova that will shine 10 times ...

Now, a separate group of researchers has announced that a greater number of our Milky Way galaxy’s roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars may provide an environment that has greater potential to ...

A type Ia supernova occurs when a white dwarf — the cooling remnant of an aging star — draws hydrogen from a companion sun. When the dwarf reaches 1.4 times the mass of the Sun, the star ...

A red giant star and white dwarf orbit each other in this animation of a nova similar to T Coronae Borealis. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers have been watching a small constellation ...

Stargazers watched the skies with bated breath on Thursday night in hopes that T Coronae Borealis, a system consisting of a hot, red giant star and a cool, white dwarf star about 3,000 light-years ...

"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." A pair of rare, compact white dwarf stars that are set to collide in about 23 ...