After all, it’s likely that the Sun will one day become a white dwarf as well — and that means it, too, could destroy ... seven Earth-like planets NASA discovered in a nearby star’s ...

Recent research has uncovered what appears to be the grizzly death ... of a star called a white dwarf. It is this white dwarf, named WD 2226-210 and located just 650 light-years from Earth ...

The estimates for how much it would cost to actually build a real Death Star in modern times are staggering, but they're ...

Researchers link two ancient mass extinctions to nearby supernova explosions, which may have damaged Earth's atmosphere and ...

A team of astronomers used three instruments from the Keck Observatory to study WR 104, a stellar system nicknamed the 'death star'. They discovered that ... of a potential gamma-ray burst directed ...

For over a decade, a star system on the verge of unleashing a deadly gamma ray burst appeared to have its guns trained on Earth. The so-called "Death Star," which is also famed for looking like a ...

revealing it is not likely to live up to its "death star" reputation. Located approximately 8,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius, the enigmatic star system WR 104 is ...