The CRIRES+ instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has been used to measure the ...

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

A dramatic double supernova explosion has been captured for the first time by a team of scientists, including a ­Trinity ...

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

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

MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium ...

"The explosions of white dwarfs play a crucial role in astronomy," stated Priyam Das, a PhD student at the University of New South Wales Canberra and study leader. Das further described the findings ...

This is the first evidence for a white dwarf exploding not once, but twice. The discovery could shed new light on how some ...

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

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

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

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