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

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

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

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

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 ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud are at war, with the larger of these dwarf galaxies ripping the other apart. advertisement. Space.

A team of scientists has developed a new model to study ‘very massive stars’ and their impact on the formation of black holes ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered new structural and spectral details of SNR J0450.4−7050, a supernova ...

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

An international team of astronomers has employed various satellites and ground-based telescopes to perform multiwavelength ...

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