Artist's concept of a red giant star and white dwarf orbiting one another. When the red giant moves behind the white dwarf, a nova explosion on the white dwarf ignites. (Photo Credit: NASA Goddard ...

Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope captured a before-and-after image of a star exploding brightly. With the images one year apart, the contrast shows how bright a supernova is, and how that ...

This rapid reaction required astronomers to use a technique called spectropolarimetry to gather information about the ...

A stronomers have been able to catch the earliest phases of supernova explosions with one of the most powerful observatories ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists for the first time have spotted the insides of a dying star as it exploded, offering a rare peek into stellar evolution. Stars can live for millions to trillions of years ...

What can an exploding star in a distant galaxy teach scientists about red supergiants? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of ...

A new discovery about what happens when a supernova – an exploding star – and a black hole collide could change the way scientists understand the lives and deaths of stars. The finding was the first ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is 'exploding' with activity. See dramatic new images of its growing ion tail and learn how NASA ...