The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion years ...

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear destined to die in an extraordinarily violent quadruple detonation.

However, in 2023, astronomers discovered an unusual white dwarf that had a surface made of hydrogen on one side and helium on the other. Since then, a handful of other white dwarfs with differing ...

An international team of astronomers has performed optical photometric, polarimetric and spectroscopic observations of a ...