For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...

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

"The explosions of white dwarfs play a crucial role in astronomy," stated Priyam Das, a PhD student at the University of New South Wales Canberra and study leader. Das further described the findings ...

In a groundbreaking development, a team of astronomers, in collaboration with citizen scientists, has uncovered a new and ...

Celebrate the Fourth with the Fireworks Galaxy, then check out the Demon Star Algol and the Full Buck Moon in the sky this ...

Stargazers in the U.S. can see Venus rising around 3 a.m. local time, with the Pleiades star cluster visible as a smudge of ...

Astronomers from the University of Turku in Finland and elsewhere have performed a broadband spectral and timing study of an ...

If you wait even longer, eventually the stars will all burn out – stars like the sun last only about 10 billion years.