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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Astronomers have found a remarkable pair of stars that may finally prove a long-debated theory. Described in the journal ...

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

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

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 ...

According to a fairly new theory, white dwarfs can explode twice in a row in certain circumstances. For the first time, we ...

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