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

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

Astronomers have captured the first-ever visual evidence of awhite dwarf star exploding twice in a remarkable supernova event ...

The newly observed binary system features a cataclysmic variable star, designated GOTO0650, which is in a rarely seen late stage of its evolution. This was also the first major discovery for the ...

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 ...

Scientists at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have tracked the first-ever visual proof of double detonations in white ...

This is the first evidence for a white dwarf exploding not once, but twice. The discovery could shed new light on how some ...

This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. These are the expanding ...

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

Astronomers have captured the first visual evidence of a white dwarf star undergoing a rare “double detonation” before ...

Astronomers have visually confirmed a star's demise through double detonation, using the European Southern Observatory's Very ...

An explosion captured in a new image could help astronomers to better understand the "standard candles" at the center of a ...