Astronomers peering into the Large Magellanic Cloud have caught a white-dwarf crime scene in the act of giving up its secrets ...

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

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

Type Ia supernovae are triggered by white dwarfs—the fading cores of dead stars. These stellar corpses often steal matter ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

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

By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...

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

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

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

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

These star clusters, containing as many as 1 million members, evolve over time largely through a gravitational pinball where ...