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

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

This artist’s conception shows the collision of two neutron stars on Aug. 17. The event was detected in both gravitational waves and, more significantly, light. Jonah B. Kanner / Caltech ...

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

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

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...

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

A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...

Astronomers capture first image of a white dwarf exploding twice in space Rare double-detonation seen in supernova remnant ...