"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...

But a rarer kind of supernova involves a different type of star - a stellar ember called a white dwarf - and a double ...

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the massive galaxy cluster Abell 1351, located in the constellation Ursa ...

Astronomers peering into the Large Magellanic Cloud have caught a white-dwarf crime scene in the act of giving up its secrets ...

In a groundbreaking cosmic revelation, astronomers have captured the first visual evidence of a dying star erupting in a rare ...

Astronomers have captured a jaw-dropping picture of star that exploded twice. It is the first time researchers have obtained ...

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

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