Astronomers have, for the first time, witnessed a star meeting a dramatic end by exploding twice. In a study published in ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

A new animated map sheds light on the superhot "zombie star" at the heart of a nebula leftover from a distant supernova witnessed by astronomers in 1181. The remains of the stellar explosion are ...

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

Astronomers have taken a superdetailed, zoomed-in photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud's "behemoth star." The stunning image, which is the first of its kind from outside the Milky Way, shows that the ...

The supernova SN2023ixf was discovered just 21 million light years away—essentially next door, as exploded stars go.

Closest supernova in a decade reveals how exploding stars evolve by Robert Sanders, University of California - Berkeley Editors' notes ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured some bizarre imagery of an exploding star that, for some reason, kept repeating itself.

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

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

“Some stars prior to exploding go through undulations — fitful behavior that gently ejects some of the material — so that when the supernova explodes, either the shock wave or the ...