Using the largest catalog of exploding white dwarf vampire stars ever gathered has provided further evidence that dark energy ...

An international team of astrophysicists, led by Northwestern University and the University of Leicester in England, has ...

It took about 50 exploding stars to upend cosmology. Researchers mapped and measured light from Type Ia supernovae, the ...

Betelgeuse companion discovery with Gemini North resolves century-old mystery and opens new doors in red supergiant research ...

The spiral galaxy M83 is captured face-on, providing a clear view of its full structure. Chandra's X-ray data reveals ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a star that exploded not once, but twice. A new image of a roughly 300-year-old supernova provides visual evidence that some dying stars undergo a double ...

The two objects make for a strange pair. Unlike Betelgeuse, which is approaching the end of its life, the blue-white ...

What’s unique about this new supernova, called SN 2018zd, is that astronomers were able to compare Hubble and Spitzer space telescope images of its host galaxy before and after the explosion.

An unusual star system created more of a fizz and less of a bang when it exploded in a supernova. The “ultra-stripped” supernova led researchers to discover the two stars 11,000 light-years ...

Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exploding white dwarf stars ...