A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...

Artist's impression of an AM-CVn star system, where helium flows from one star to the other, piling up as a shell that may end up exploding as a .Ia supernova. This image relates to an article ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope and an array of other instruments, astronomers have probed supernova wreckage in the Large ...

Supernovae are divided into two basic physical types, Ia and II. Type Ia is caused by thermal runaway, and type II supernovae are caused by core collapse. Because the supernova "family tree" was ...

Astronomers expect them to explode as a type 1a supernova that will one day shine 10 times brighter than our moon. The discovery is detailed in a study published April 4 in the journal Nature ...

After converging, the binary star system will explode into a Type 1a supernova. Scientists have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarf stars are responsible for creating Type 1a supernovas ...

Astronomers have long suspected that this LMC supernova remnant is the remains of a destroyed white dwarf star, but the exact details of that explosive event, called a Type Ia supernova ...