In a nutshell A ticking cosmic time bomb lies just 160 light-years from Earth: Astronomers have discovered a rare double ...

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

The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

Some of the most massive and influential stars in the universe are OB stars. These blue giants, many times more massive than the Sun, are short-lived but powerful forces that shape their surroundings.

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

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

T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), also known as the Blaze Star, is a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth. It ...

Scientists have identified supernova debris in deep-sea sediments, including a rare plutonium isotope linked to a kilonova. Researchers believe a neutron star collision occurred nearly 10 million ...

What's the deadliest part of a supernova explosion? To estimate this we have to look at what the actual destructive capabilities are of a supernova. As in, what does a supernova produce?

By Alimat Aliyeva A group of European, British, and American astronomers has discovered 34 binary white dwarf systems i ...

They then performed supernova simulations to determine how current theories of stellar evolution could explain a neutron star with such a low mass.