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.

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

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 ...

It's popularly understood that no one can hear you scream in space, and yet, scientists have captured some pretty strange ...

Black holes are expected to be the last giant objects left in the universe, but even they will slowly shrink and disappear ...

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