A dramatic double supernova explosion has been captured for the first time by a team of scientists, including a ­Trinity ...

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 ...

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

"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 ...

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

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 ...

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

This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. These are the expanding ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...