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.

In 23 billion years, these two white dwarf stars will collide. Then, they'll explore. Here's why scientists say this ...

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

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

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.

These explosions happen when a white dwarf, which is already an ultra-dense star remnant, takes in too much mass.