In other cases, another member of the system will go on to form a second white dwarf. If gravitational instabilities bring ...

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

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

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

White Dwarf Discovery Could Transform How Scientists Measure the Universe In A Nutshell Astronomers found direct evidence ...

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic evidence, captured using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ...

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

"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...

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

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured the stunning Sombrero Galaxy (M104), known for its bright central bulge and ...

A 2015 satellite photo captured a series of stunning "von Kármán vortices" swirling off Madeira and the Canary Islands. The ...