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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured the stunning Sombrero Galaxy (M104), known for its bright central bulge and ...

The image reveals swirling gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula-our nearby universe’s most prolific star factory, 160,000 ...