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

Scientists agree that the genesis of Type Ia supernovas is binary systems of two stars in which one becomes a white dwarf. If ...

NASA confirms the existence of TOI‑1846 b, a nearby hot super-Earth that could contain water, initially observed by NASA's ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

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

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

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

The smoking gun of the creation of lithium in explosions on white dwarf stars may have been found, in a spike of gamma rays ...

When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...

A giant gas planet comparable in size to Saturn exists around a small red dwarf star. The discovery is beyond the scope of ...