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

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

This discovery offers a glimpse into the dramatic and explosive fates awaiting some of the universe's most fascinating ...

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

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

Discover the intriguing space explosion predicted in a rare double white dwarf system just 160 light-years away from Earth.

A nearby cosmic ticking time bomb has been found! Just 150 light years away, a pair of white dwarf stars are on a death ...

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

the heavier white dwarf of the pair gradually accumulates material from its partner, which leads to that star (or both stars) exploding. This discovery, published today in Nature Astronomy ...