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

With the gap between them very gradually narrowing as the binary system loses energy, the fact that they are so massive and so close ensures their demise over a large timescale.

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the ...

Astronomers have identified two massive white dwarf stars in a binary system within the Milky Way, poised for a rare ...

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

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

If it exploded today, this future supernova might be close enough to us to pose a threat, but the Sun will have burned out before it happens.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

NGC 4826, also known as the Black Eye Galaxy, Messier 64, or M64, is a spiral galaxy located 17 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices, famous for its dark band of dust across ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.