When the white dwarf has accumulated enough of the other star’s hydrogen, it ignites a thermonuclear explosion, causing the nova. This happens every 80 years or so. Where to see the T Coronae Borealis ...

Astronomers are once again getting excited about a rare nova that could appear in the night sky anytime from now into the ...

The lone planet confirmed to be in the system is squeezed in between the two, orbiting at a distance similar to Earth's ...

NASA believes that the month of May brings visibility to four planets, a new star from a nova, a chance of meteor showers and ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova remnant that had not been observed before." ...

T Coronae Borealis, a.k.a. Blaze Star, only explodes once every 80 years, appearing as a new star in the night ... remnant of a dead star, a.k.a. “white dwarf,” and “an ancient red giant ...

However, scientists generally think it would take less than 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years for the average human to ...

Periodic radio emissions have been discovered in a binary system of white and red dwarf stars with an orbit time of 125 ...

In a paper published today in Nature, scholars from the Institute for Advanced Study; the University of Victoria, Canada; and the University of Warwick, U.K., have proposed a new theory that explains ...

The universe is dying much sooner than scientists previously thought. But there's still going to be a long wait until then.

The lives and deaths of stars shape the universe—from the gentle fading of white dwarfs to the explosive furnaces that forged ...

Astronomers are once again getting excited about a rare nova that could appear in the night sky anytime from now into the coming months. Here's why.