An international team of astronomers has employed various satellites and ground-based telescopes to perform multiwavelength ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered new structural and spectral details of SNR J0450.4−7050, a supernova ...

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

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exploding white dwarf stars ...

Type Ia supernovae are triggered by white dwarfs—the fading cores of dead stars. These stellar corpses often steal matter ...

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

(CN) — While all stars go out in a bang, some go out with two. For the first time, astronomers have recorded visual evidence ...

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

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the ...

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