The traditional Japanese paste tastes nuttier and more roasted when made in orbit, according to an experiment that could help ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

"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 ...

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

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the ...

A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

According to a fairly new theory, white dwarfs can explode twice in a row in certain circumstances. For the first time, we ...

This is the first time an object in its class has been detected in X-rays. The discovery could lead to a better understanding ...

In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...