We expect that [T Coronae Borealis] will erupt any night now, any month now,” Bradley Schaefer, a Louisiana State University ...

This discovery offers a glimpse into the dramatic and explosive fates awaiting some of the universe's most fascinating ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is an optical illusion.

This breathtaking picture reveals a star 'destructing' - and possibly 'murdering' a nearby planet.The never-before-seen ...

When T CrB does explode, it will look like a very bright star in the night sky in the Corona Borealis constellation. People ...

Astronomers have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarfs are the cause of most type 1a supernova explosions. While the ...

These explosions happen when a white dwarf, which is already an ultra-dense star remnant, takes in too much mass.

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 ...

NASA explains that the explosion occurs roughly every 78-80 years when the smaller white dwarf stars accretes too much hydrogen from the bigger red giant that it's orbiting. The thermonuclear ...

A conceptual image of how to find Hercules and the ... but it will jump to a magnitude +2 during the explosion. MORE: Binary star system found near the Milky Way's black hole: An 'amazing ...

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