Skywatchers are scanning the night sky for an explosion that happened 3,000 years ago. A nova called T Coronae Borealis, ...

T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), also known as the Blaze Star, is a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth. It periodically explodes in a recurring nova every 79 years or so, and it’s due ...

The findings reveal unusual chemical signatures and offer new insights into the behavior of novas beyond the Milky Way.

In the new study, published April 4 in the journal Nature Astronomy, researchers revealed that WDJ181058.67+311940.94, a white dwarf binary star system located just 150 light-years from Earth, is ...

In "At the Edge of Space," NOVA takes viewers on a spectacular exploration of the Earth-space boundary that's home to some of nature's most puzzling and alluring phenomena: the shimmering aurora ...

Skygazers have been waiting for over a year to see a recurrent nova that creates a temporary, super-bright star every 80 years or so. A new study suggests that it could finally happen this week — but ...

The “Blaze Star” is a rare nova that could produce an explosion visible with the naked eye in the next few nights, located about 3,000 light years from Earth and part of the ...

The Intuitive Machines' moon mission, named Odysseus, took off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center atop a Falcon 9 rocket launched by SpaceX in the early hours of February 15. The Nova-C lander is ...