Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artistic impression of Nova V1674 Herculis. The recent deaths of two white dwarf stars are challenging our understanding of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have teamed up with citizen scientists to discover a brand-new exploding star that's greedily feeding on a stellar ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can explode not once, but twice before fading forever. Using the European Southern ...

Citizen scientists using the Kilonova Seekers platform spotted a stellar flash 2,500 times brighter than before, allowing astronomers to identify the exploding cataclysmic variable GOTO0650 within ...

Astronomers have captured the first visual evidence of a white dwarf star undergoing a rare “double detonation” before exploding in a Type Ia supernova. Studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 with ESO’s ...

Astronomers at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan have teamed up on research that's taken the highest-resolution images to date of star explosions called novae (the plural of ...

In a groundbreaking development, a team of astronomers, in collaboration with citizen scientists, has uncovered a new and exciting type of exploding star, GOTO0650, marking a major achievement in both ...

"The speed at which this doomed stellar system is lurching wildly, likely due to the extreme brightness, is a frantic sign of its imminent, violent end." When you purchase through links on our site, ...