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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Previously described as playing astronomical "spot the difference," Kilonova Seekers asks the public to compare the latest ...