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 ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

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

MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium ...

Somehow through five Monsterverse movies, we still haven't gotten a key Godzilla story that Godzilla X Kong: Supernova can ...

"When nearby supernovas occur in the future, the radiation could have a pretty dramatic effect on human society." ...

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

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

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

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

What would happen if you put a baseball-sized piece of neutron star on the Earth? Would it fall to the core of the Earth and ...

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...