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

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

A team led by Tomas Stolker has discovered a young gas giant exoplanet orbiting a 12-million-year-old star, while its ...

A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

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

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) published a photograph revealing the remnants of a white dwarf star that ended its ...

In other cases, another member of the system will go on to form a second white dwarf. If gravitational instabilities bring ...

Scientists have obtained photographic evidence of a double-detonation Type Ia supernova for the first time. This rare cosmic ...

Now, they’ve captured the first visual proof: the ancient remnants of a supernova called SNR 0509-67.5 show signs of this ...