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

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

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

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

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

"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers a visual spectacle." ...

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

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

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

Here's everything to know about the James Webb Space Telescope, and what it captured on its three-year anniversary observing the cosmos. To mark Webb's third year of operations, NASA shared an image ...

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

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...