Type Ia supernovae have long served as essential tools in cosmology, acting as cosmic beacons that help astronomers measure ...

officials wrote in a description of the Hubble image "The resulting burst of runaway nuclear fusion destroys the white dwarf in a supernova explosion that can be seen many galaxies away." ...

Lobster-eye satellite Einstein Probe captured the X-ray flash from a very elusive celestial pair. The discovery opens a new ...

Learn about the explosions that often occur at the end of a white dwarf star's life, allowing scientists to study the ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

Recent observations of white dwarf explosions have revealed new insights into their diversity and relationship to dark energy ...

A stunning new discovery reveals that white dwarf stars — once thought to explode in predictable ways — actually detonate through an astonishing variety of mechanisms. From star cannibalism to violent ...

NASA reports that T Coronae Borealis, a white dwarf star 3,000 light-years away ... This is not to be confused with a supernova, a star's "core collapse" that leads to its complete destruction.

Image of the accretion disk: A snapshot of the binary star system before the violent supernova explosion blew it ... "An unusual white dwarf star may be a surviving remnant of a subluminous ...

A unique dataset of Type Ia supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of ...

These supernovae, resulting from white dwarf stars in binary ... have identified AT 2023adsv, a supernova that occurred 11.4 billion years ago. This stellar explosion, from a star 20 times the ...