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 ...

The Universe is a vast, twinkling enigma, teasing us with secrets that feel like they're just out of reach. Scientists at ...

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took photos a rare supernova roughly 300 years after it happened ...

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

For the first time in anyone’s lifetime, the southern heavens are hosting not one but two naked-eye novae an event so rare ...

SiliconRepublic.com visited the EIRSAT-1 mission control at University College Dublin, just weeks before the project comes to ...

It is this principle, which is accountable for the stability of neutron stars and white dwarfs ... It’s what stops the cores of dying stars from collapsing endlessly, and it’s what can trigger a ...

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