Astronomers have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarfs are the cause of most type 1a supernova explosions. While the ...

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

The annual cosmic event is expected ... visible up until May 10th. The 'shooting stars' often leave a trail of glowing trains behind them in the night sky that could last anywhere from a few ...

That's when the Lyrid meteor shower - one of the oldest known and most reliable meteor showers of the year - lights up the ...

A pair of circling white dwarf stars located on our "cosmic doorstep" are doomed to explode in a rare, quadruple supernova that will shine 10 times brighter than the moon in the night sky, a new ...

This shows the formation of ancient clouds of hydrogen and helium that will later collapse to birth the first stars ... purple and the cosmic microwave background in grey. The sky is rotated ...