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

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

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

The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion years ...

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

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on March 4, 2025, the composite photo shows a potentially destructive white dwarf ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered a pair of white dwarf stars located about 150 light-years from Earth that are on course to collide and produce a Type 1a supernova in approximately 23 billion years.

Star symbols are the now seven confirmed double-faced white dwarfs, including J0847+4824 and J0856+1611 presented in this work. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal (2025). DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adbd3a ...

One of the white dwarfs has a mass about 83% that of our sun and the other about 72%. No other known white dwarf binary has a larger combined mass, Munday said. "They are both about as big as the ...

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear destined to die in an extraordinarily violent quadruple detonation.