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

A supernova explosion occurred on July 4, 1054, resulting from the death of a star estimated to be nine to eleven times the ...

"The explosions of white dwarfs play a crucial role in astronomy," stated Priyam Das, a PhD student at the University of New South Wales Canberra and study leader. Das further described the findings ...

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

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

The largest and brightest is an enormous supergiant star about 100 times the mass of the Sun and five million times brighter.

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

The "new stars" are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, but people have spotted them from the United States by looking ...