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

The smoking gun of the creation of lithium in explosions on white dwarf stars may have been found, in a spike of gamma rays ...

About 8,150 light-years from Earth, a white dwarf star named Gaia22ayj has intrigued astronomers. Its unusual behavior, ...

"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...

When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...

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

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

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

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 ...

What new methods can be developed in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)? This is what a recent white paper ...

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

The month that brings the anniversary of the lunar landing also features great meteor showers and Manhattanhenge's second act ...