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

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

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

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

Few things in space are as bright as a supernova, but recently astronomer captured a flash out in the cosmos so great their ...

The newly observed binary system features a cataclysmic variable star, designated GOTO0650, which is in a rarely seen late stage of its evolution. This was also the first major discovery for the ...

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” ...

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

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

An explosion captured in a new image could help astronomers to better understand the "standard candles" at the center of a ...

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