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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The odds of a galactic collision in our distant future are much lower than we thought, according to new simulations.

Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, shown, may possess enough gravitational pull to prevent the Milky Way from colliding with the Andromeda Galaxy. NOIRLab/AURA/NSF.