The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star ...

Watch how JW Telescope detects temperature on Trappist 1 b. Credit: Space.com | animation courtesy: ESO/L. Calçada / Space ...

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

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

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

The space-based observatory has revolutionized the way we see space, and it can now add another remarkable accomplishment to ...

When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

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

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

Now, they’ve captured the first visual proof: the ancient remnants of a supernova called SNR 0509-67.5 show signs of this ...

Nestled inside a planetary ring 110 light-years from Earth, a planet spotted by the James Webb telescope is the lightest exoplanet ever detected.