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

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

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

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

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

The newly observed binary system features a cataclysmic variable star, designated GOTO0650, which is in a rarely seen late stage of its evolution. This was also the first major discovery for the ...

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

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 ...

By studying faint vibrations within stars, scientists using the Keck Planet Finder have discovered internal features that ...

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

Trundling along the ecliptic plane in Virgo, our satellite hangs near the bright star Spica in the evening sky.

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