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

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

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

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

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 have detected a previously unknown type of stellar explosion called a micronova involving thermonuclear blasts at the polar regions of a type of burned-out star called a white dwarf ...

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 ...

New calculations suggest that the universe's most enduring celestial objects, such as white dwarf stars, are decaying faster than previously thought. . | Credit: Future As the story of our cosmos ...

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

That "new star" will appear when the star T Coronae ... During a nova event, explains NASA, energy explodes from a white dwarf star. Dr. Rebekah Hounsell, an assistant research scientist ...