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

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

In a groundbreaking cosmic revelation, astronomers have captured the first visual evidence of a dying star erupting in a rare ...

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

Astronomers have discovered the "missing link" connecting the death of sunlike stars to the birth of white dwarf stellar ...

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...

Enrique Rico Ortega and Sofia Vallecorsa explain how quantum computing will allow physicists to model complex dynamics, from ...

The supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5 view from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, the expanding remains of a star that exploded hundreds of years ago in a double-detonation – the ...

Three new full-dome movies will highlight the July schedule at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium.