The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star ...

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

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

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...

Astronomers have discovered the first evidence of a white dwarf wiped out by a double-detonation supernova, also providing ...

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

Previously described as playing astronomical "spot the difference," Kilonova Seekers asks the public to compare the latest ...

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

Researchers from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made significant ...

A mobile app lets citizen scientists flag anomalies in space that are hard for computers to detect.

A cataclysmic variable star isn’t technically a single object. Instead, it’s a compact binary system composed of a white ...

Hawaii’s significant contribution to science, particularly those discoveries made through telescope installations on two ...