"FU Ori has been devouring material for almost 100 years to keep its eruption going. We have finally found an answer to how ...

Astronomers have predicted that a nearby white dwarf star will erupt in a dramatic nova explosion later this year, which will ...

An unusual group of stars in the Orion constellation have revealed their secrets. FU Orionis, a double star system, first ...

A white dwarf is essentially a dead stellar core, and the T CrB binary system is made up of both a white dwarf and a red ...

If you peer up at the constellation Corona Borealis—the Northern Crown—over the next several months, you may catch a glimpse: ...

While ESA's satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it spotted a burst of gamma-rays—high-energy photons—coming from the ...

While ESA's satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it spotted a burst of gamma-rays -- high-energy photons -- coming from the nearby galaxy M82. Only a few hours later, ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray space ...