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

Sculptor—officially labeled NGC 253—is considered a starburst galaxy, one heavy with stellar action. It's located 11 million light-years away in the Southern Hemisphere's constellation Sculptor, and ...

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

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and ...

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

Scientists have obtained photographic evidence of a double-detonation Type Ia supernova for the first time. This rare cosmic ...

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

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

Now, they’ve captured the first visual proof: the ancient remnants of a supernova called SNR 0509-67.5 show signs of this ...

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

Astronomers have, for the first time, witnessed a star meeting a dramatic end by exploding twice. In a study published in ...

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