About 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagitta, a white dwarf is hungrily gobbling up matter from a nearby companion star. The volatile relationship results in incredible fusion-driven ...

T Coronae Borealis, a star system 3,000 light-years away, is expected to erupt as a nova in June 2026, briefly becoming ...

Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and ...

Astronomers detected radio waves from a rare exploding star, revealing what happens in the final years before a massive star ...

Astronomers have strengthened long-standing predictions that massive runaway stars could have originated in binary pairs, and ...

Astronomers pictured novae—the violent explosions that occur on the surface of white dwarf stars—as simple, spherical fireballs. You could think of them as the universe’s flashbulbs: one big pop, a ...

For the first time, astronomers have captured radio signals from a rare exploding star, exposing what happened in the years ...