Goldstein is optimistic that “Minecraft” will help turn the box office tides. Fortunes have already begun to shift. Prior to ...

If it exploded today, this future supernova might be close enough to us to pose a threat, but the Sun will have burned out before it happens.

These explosions happen when a white dwarf, which is already an ultra-dense star remnant, takes in too much mass.

A binary star system about 150 light years from Earth, right on our cosmic doorstep, is on track to collide as a type 1a ...

Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a supernova, appearing ...

Scientists have found the heaviest known pair of dead stars in our galaxy — a rare system they believe will one day explode ...

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

A nearby cosmic ticking time bomb has been found! Just 150 light years away, a pair of white dwarf stars are on a death ...