Astronomers have captured the first-ever visual evidence of awhite dwarf star exploding twice in a remarkable supernova event ...

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

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

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

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

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...

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

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

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

Astronomers have spotted another never-before-seen "nova" blaze to life in the night sky. This may be the first time that ...

According to a fairly new theory, white dwarfs can explode twice in a row in certain circumstances. For the first time, we ...

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