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

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

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

Astronomers have discovered the first evidence of a white dwarf wiped out by a double-detonation supernova, also providing ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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