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

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

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

An explosion captured in a new image could help astronomers to better understand the "standard candles" at the center of a ...

A red supergiant star transitions into a type II supernova in this animation. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko | ...

If Betelgeuse were to go boom it would be the nearest supernova explosion in more than 400 years and it would be so bright it would be visible even in daylight. You may like Is the 'Blaze Star ...

Stock image of a supernova. Betelgeuse, a huge star 650 light years away, may soon explode into a supernova that would be visible during the day.

A massive star that exploded in the Pinwheel Galaxy in May appears to have unexpectedly lost approximately one sun's worth of ejected mass during the final years of its life before going supernova ...

Then everything else is going to swish in, and it's going to slosh around," he said. Betelgeuse could burst into a supernova visible from Earth — one day . A pre-supernova star, ...

New image from James Webb Telescope shows star about to become supernova 06:00. ... captured the rare and brief phase of a star in the constellation Sagittarius right before dying and going supernova.

Remnants of stars not massive enough to go supernova. When the living star in the IK Pegasi system approaches the end of its life it’ll start to puff up.

Modeling places this supernova explosion at about 11.5 billion years ago. The observations provide interesting insight into the evolution of the supernova, as it changed color over the course of ...