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

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

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

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

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

For over a decade, scientists have waited for a glimpse beneath the cosmic dust veiling the galaxy. Now, using the European Southern Observatory’s VISTA telescope, they've unveiled over 1.5 billion ...

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

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 studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” supernova, where an initial helium blast on the star’s surface triggers a ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

Chile's ALMA observatory, which houses some of the world's most powerful telescopes, has captured its most detailed images to ...