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

A supernova explosion occurred on July 4, 1054, resulting from the death of a star estimated to be nine to eleven times the ...

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

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

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 ...

A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

A breathtaking image of a supernova remnant 160,000 light-years from Earth has offered the first direct evidence that white ...

In a groundbreaking cosmic revelation, astronomers have captured the first visual evidence of a dying star erupting in a rare ...

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

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 ...

Scientists at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have tracked the first-ever visual proof of double detonations in white ...