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

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 ...

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

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

Astronomers have captured a jaw-dropping picture of star that exploded twice. It is the first time researchers have obtained ...

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the massive galaxy cluster Abell 1351, located in the constellation Ursa ...

But a rarer kind of supernova involves a different type of star - a stellar ember called a white dwarf - and a double ...