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

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

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 ...

(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 ...

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

In other cases, another member of the system will go on to form a second white dwarf. If gravitational instabilities bring ...

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

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