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 ...

The team found that the planet, dubbed HIP 67522 b, orbits its parent star so tightly that it appears to cause frequent ...

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

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” supernova, where an initial helium blast on the star’s surface triggers a ...

Figuring out the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy—yet, it remains a challenge since ...

In other cases, another member of the system will go on to form a second white dwarf. If gravitational instabilities bring ...

This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. These are the expanding ...

The discovery itself is simple and fundamental, but the applications stretch far and wide into astrophysics and quantum ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

Astronomers uncover how massive stars form by tracking interstellar ammonia. Using the U.S. National Science Foundation ...