Using the largest catalog of exploding white dwarf vampire stars ever gathered has provided further evidence that dark energy, the mysterious force accelerating the expansion of the universe, is ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A newly discovered pair of white dwarfs will both explode in a type 1a supernova when they circle ...

Astronomers have found a remarkable pair of stars that may finally prove a long-debated theory. Described in the journal Nature Astronomy, this duo offers the strongest evidence yet that type 1a ...

In this picture, we capture the binary in the moment where the first white dwarf has just exploded, hurtling material towards its nearby companion which is on the cusp of explosion too. This event ...

Interesting! I didn't realise fusion of Helium could happen at the surface of a star, due to lack of necessary temperature and pressure. I'd been reading about reactions that produce most heavier ...

Recent research by a team of astronomers led by the University of Arizona’s Peter A. Milne won’t overturn the Nobel-Prize-winning discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. It does ...

Astronomers have identified an extremely rare, high-mass binary star system on a collision course just 150 light years from Earth—a discovery that could lead to one of the brightest cosmic events ever ...