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

Earlier this week, ESPN's Kiley McDaniel predicted that the Mets would take 6-foot-6 high school infielder/outfielder Quentin ...

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

A dramatic cosmic event, a rare dwarf nova that suddenly brightened by a factor of 2,500, has been discovered with the help ...

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

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

"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...

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

A red supergiant star transitions into a type II supernova in this animation. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko | ...

When Beetlejuice goes off, it's going to be the show of a lifetime. But it's not going to hurt us. Betelgeuse is the shoulder of Orion, a red giant sitting about 500 light years away. It's huge ...

While the star is likely to go supernova, it’s impossible to say when the explosion could occur. “We have never been able to tell precisely when a red supergiant is going to explode, as we can ...

A star that winked out of view could be a “failed supernova,” a stellar explosion that petered out instead of fully detonating, a new study reports. If real, the failed supernova would mark ...