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

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

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

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 ...

This type of explosion is known as a classical nova, which occurs in a binary star system when a white dwarf pulls in gas ...

Sky watchers around the world have a new star to hunt for in the night sky, thanks to a recently detected explosion in our ...