Astronomers have, for the first time, witnessed a star meeting a dramatic end by exploding twice. In a study published in ...

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

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

Scientists predict one of the major surveys by NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may reveal around 100,000 ...

Closest supernova in a decade reveals how exploding stars evolve by Robert Sanders, University of California - Berkeley Editors' notes ...

The Zwicky Transient Facility has reached an incredible milestone, classifying over 10,000 supernovas, cosmic explosions that mark the death of massive stars.

In a stunning first-ever image, astronomers have seen a star that died by exploding twice. They pointed the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) at supernova SNR 0509-67.5, ...

Astronomers capture first image of a white dwarf exploding twice in space Rare double-detonation seen in supernova remnant ...

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

A supernova remnant and associated runaway stars in Scorpius-Centaurus – one of the latter being a pulsar, the collapsed core of a dead star after a supernova – suggests that this region is ...

Accounts of supernovae – exploding stars – go back thousands of years, but while we know today that these events create the building blocks of life itself, the conditions that cause a star to ...