An explosion captured in a new image could help astronomers to better understand the "standard candles" at the center of a ...

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

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

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic evidence, captured using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ...