NASA says this white dwarf was 'particularly destructive' and may have engulfed a nearby planet. A statement from the space agency reads: "This image of the Helix Nebula, released ...

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

The once-in-a-lifetime explosion of T Coronae Borealis, also known as the "Blaze Star" is still pending -- but the event will ...

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

A 40-year-old space enigma has been unraveled: a white dwarf star at the center of the Helix Nebula has been annihilating a nearby planet, triggering strange X-ray radiation, which unveiled the star's ...