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

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured an electrifying image of a giant lightning "sprite" shooting up over Mexico and ...

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

The "new stars" are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, but people have spotted them from the United States by looking ...

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

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

Jupiter-like planet 8 UMi b, named Halla, orbits its host red giant star Baekdu closely. The red giant's merger with a white ...

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

Astronomers have discovered a "teenage vampire" dead star in the process of devouring a companion star during a short-lived, "missing link" phase of its evolution.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Inset: an illustration of a white dwarf. Main top: Gaia22ayj seen in X-rays and visible light ...

The future of yellow dwarf stars, like our sun, is determined almost entirely by their mass. The most massive stars, about eight to 12 times heftier than the sun, can explode as supernovae ...