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

According to NASA, meteors happen when meteoroids enter the Earth’s atmosphere at high speed and burn up. This is when they ...

Astronomers peering into the Large Magellanic Cloud have caught a white-dwarf crime scene in the act of giving up its secrets ...

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 ...

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