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

Astronomers have captured the first-ever visual evidence of awhite dwarf star exploding twice in a remarkable supernova event. The discovery, made by studying the remnants of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 ...

Five-pointed stars, twenty in number and made of printed and plain colored cottons, are set off by white circles to create this quilt top. The 15½-inch blocks are framed by an 8-inch-wide dark green ...

A glimpse of our solar system’s future has appeared thousands of light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. There a giant planet like Jupiter orbits a white dwarf, a dim, dense star that ...

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

Senators on Monday made a slight alteration to the star before their final vote, moving from the 8-pointed model recommended by a state flag task force to a more traditionally American 5-point star ...

The Utah Senate passed a bill that would replace Utah's state flag. State Sen. Dan McCay said his substitute legislation would change the 8-point star to a 5-point start, which, he says, will ...