The CRIRES+ instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has been used to measure the ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium ...

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

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” ...

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

"The explosions of white dwarfs play a crucial role in astronomy," stated Priyam Das, a PhD student at the University of New South Wales Canberra and study leader. Das further described the findings ...

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

This is the first evidence for a white dwarf exploding not once, but twice. The discovery could shed new light on how some ...

(CN) — While all stars go out in a bang, some go out with two. For the first time, astronomers have recorded visual evidence ...

The galaxy sits in a sweet spot that allows astronomers to study it in ways that can't be applied to even our own Milky Way ...