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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

This is the first evidence for a white dwarf exploding not once, but twice. The discovery could shed new light on how some ...