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

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 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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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