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

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to determine the mass of white dwarf star LAWD 37. It is "56 percent the mass of our ...

Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exploding white dwarf stars ...

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

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

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

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, witnessed a star meeting a dramatic end by exploding twice. In a study published in ...

Credit: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (2025). DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/adb0f1 The future of yellow dwarf stars, like our sun, is determined almost entirely by their mass.

Astronomers have found a remarkable pair of stars that may finally prove a long-debated theory. Described in the journal ...

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

This is the first evidence for a white dwarf exploding not once, but twice. The discovery could shed new light on how some ...