For the first time, astronomers have spotted a star that exploded not once, but twice. A new image of a roughly 300-year-old supernova provides visual evidence that some dying stars undergo a double ...

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

Wikimedia Commons/Mare Island Navy Yard The 1944 Port Chicago Explosion The Navy built Port Chicago Naval Magazine in 1942 to ...

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

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

A gas station exploded early on Friday in southeastern Rome, injuring at least nine people including eight police officers and a firefighter, police and rescuers said. The explosion ...

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The newly observed binary system features a cataclysmic variable star, designated GOTO0650, which is in a rarely seen late stage of its evolution. This was also the first major discovery for the ...

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

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