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

The CRIRES+ instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has been used to measure the ...

Citizen scientists have successfully located thousands of previously unknown pairs of “eclipsing binary” stars, Nasa has ...

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

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

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

"The explosions of white dwarfs play a crucial role in astronomy," stated Priyam Das, a PhD student at the University of New South Wales Canberra and study leader. Das further described the findings ...

MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium ...

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

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

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

This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. These are the expanding ...