Some stars have a much different end of life than previously thought. Astronomers have observed for the first time traces of a star that exploded twice. This discovery challenges current ...

Supernovae like these are very luminous and referred to as "standard candles" in astronomy. As fixed points, they are used to ...

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

Based on the new model, the first of these white dwarf explosions isn’t due for at least 10 1100 years. That’s a 1 followed by 1,100 zeros—a number so big that we don’t have a name for it.

“ENTs are different beasts,” study lead author and astronomer Jason Hinkle explained in an accompanying statement. “Not only are ENTs far brighter than normal tidal disruption events, but they remain ...

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

Science: Exploding Universe. 3 minute read. TIME. January 5, 1931 12:00 AM GMT-5. M any a puzzled British housewife waited anxiously last week for the world to blow to pieces.

Ever since our universe exploded into being some 13.8 billion years ago, it has continued to expand. Stars and galaxies are continually moving apart — so fast that even if you were to take off ...

In the 1930s, Zwicky began hunting cosmic explosions with a small telescope from the frigid heights of the Palomar Mountain near San Diego. By the 1940s, Zwicky moved his hunt for supernovas to ...

New data involving millions of galaxies and luminous galactic cores is providing fresh evidence that the enigmatic and invisible cosmic force called dark energy - responsible for the universe's ...