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

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

By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...

An international team of astronomers has made groundbreaking observations of the supernova remnant (SNR) SNR J0450.4−7050 in ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Astronomers from the University of Turku in Finland and elsewhere have performed a broadband spectral and timing study of an ...