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

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

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

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

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

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in East Lansing, Michigan.

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

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” supernova, where an initial helium blast on the star’s surface triggers a ...

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 ...

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

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 with the European Southern ...

A stronomers have finally found evidence for a proposed mechanism for a special kind of supernova, known as a Type Ia supernova. It was proposed that at least some of them experience a double ...