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

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

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

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

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

In a stunning first-ever image, astronomers have seen a star that died by exploding twice. They pointed the European Southern ...

Type Ia supernovae are triggered by white dwarfs—the fading cores of dead stars. These stellar corpses often steal matter ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered new structural and spectral details of SNR J0450.4−7050, a supernova ...

A team of scientists has developed a new model for ‘very massive stars’ and their impact on the formation of black holes.

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

The Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud are at war, with the larger of these dwarf galaxies ripping the other apart. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu.

The Large Magellanic Cloud, shown, may possess enough gravitational pull to prevent the Milky Way from colliding with the Andromeda Galaxy. NOIRLab/AURA/NSF.