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

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

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

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

(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 ...