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

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

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

I spoke with Tarn Adams, co-creator and lead programmer of Dwarf Fortress, about the past, present, and future of his 23-year ...

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

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

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

Stargazers watched the skies with bated breath on Thursday night in hopes that T Coronae Borealis, a system consisting of a ...