T Coronae Borealis, a binary star system about 3,000 light years away, is usually far too dim to see with the naked eye.

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 distance from the Sun. And, as an added bonus, the planet is orbiting backward ...

After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star ...

A small international team of astronomers has confirmed that a binary star system with an odd signal has a companion—a planet ...

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 ...

The universe is poised to die much faster than previously thought, according to new research by Dutch scientists.

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 ...