Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

In a stunning first-ever image, astronomers have seen a star that died by exploding twice. They pointed the European Southern ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered new structural and spectral details of SNR J0450.4−7050, a supernova ...

In a groundbreaking cosmic revelation, astronomers have captured the first visual evidence of a dying star erupting in a rare ...

(CN) — While all stars go out in a bang, some go out with two. For the first time, astronomers have recorded visual evidence ...

Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exploding white dwarf stars ...

An international team of astronomers has employed various satellites and ground-based telescopes to perform multiwavelength ...

A collision between the Milky Way and neighboring galaxy Andromeda is far from a sure thing; in fact, it could hinge on the flip of a cosmic coin.

The team found only a 2 percent probability that the galaxies will collide in the next five billion years. In slightly over half of the simulated scenarios, Andromeda and the Milky Way experience at ...