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

Right now, an extraordinary and rare event is happening in the southern sky: two novae, or stellar explosions, can be seen ...

On Sol 215, Perseverance's microphones were open as it entered the eye of a dust devil, finding a "very sharp and intense" ...

From Mercury’s peak visibility to the Southern delta Aquariids meteor shower, July’s skywatching lineup promises an array of ...

(CN) — While all stars go out in a bang, some go out with two. For the first time, astronomers have recorded visual evidence ...

A stronomers have finally found evidence for a proposed mechanism for a special kind of supernova, known as a Type Ia supernova. It was proposed that at least some of them experience a double ...

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

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the ...

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

MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium is shown in blue, and it is arranged in two concentric shells. These two ...

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 ...

As extreme heat lingers across swathes of Europe, Euroverify looks at the evidence linking human-driven climate change with ...