Primordial black holes may occasionally pass through white dwarf stars and trigger enormous Type Ia supernova explosions. Researchers found that these events could explain chemical patterns seen in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artistic impression of Nova V1674 Herculis. The recent deaths of two white dwarf stars are challenging our understanding of ...

Scientists are using artificial intelligence and the Vera Rubin Observatory to investigate one of astronomy’s biggest unanswered questions: dark energy. Researchers are focusing on Type Ia supernovas, ...

Exploding stars may have dark fuses. The same mysterious stuff that holds clusters of galaxies together could also be responsible for blowing stars apart. Stars shine by fusing hydrogen into heavier ...

Astronomers have captured the clearest-ever close-up images of two exploding stars, events known as novae, within days of their eruption. These detailed images show that such explosions are far more ...

Astronomers at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan have teamed up on research that's taken the highest-resolution images to date of star explosions called novae (the plural of ...

Something we’ve never seen before is coming out of a solar system in our galaxy, astronomers say - Blasts of gas travelling as fast as 20 million miles per hour are shooting out of the rarest stellar ...