When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...

About 8,150 light-years from Earth, a white dwarf star named Gaia22ayj has intrigued astronomers. Its unusual behavior, ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

Astronomers capture first image of a white dwarf exploding twice in space Rare double-detonation seen in supernova remnant ...

Astronomers have discovered the "missing link" connecting the death of sunlike stars to the birth of white dwarf stellar ...

Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exploding white dwarf stars ...

There’s a chance we could see a white dwarf star explosion this year. T Coronae Borealis, a binary star system and recurrent nova located roughly 3,000 light-years from Earth, is expected to erupt ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to determine the mass of white dwarf star LAWD 37. It is "56 percent the mass of our ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

According to a fairly new theory, white dwarfs can explode twice in a row in certain circumstances. For the first time, we ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...