Any day now, a massive stellar blast dubbed "the Blaze Star" could light up the night sky so brightly, you won't even need a ...

Originally predicted to go nova in 2024, buzz about binary star system T Coronae Borealis was rekindled by NASA in early May ...

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

Astronomers are excitedly waiting for the arrival of a new light in the sky this year that appears once every 80 years. The ...

A nova differs from a supernova, which is an explosion that destroys dying stars, NASA explains. During a nova event, the ...

In advance of a star called T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) or the “Blaze Star” exploding in a very rare event, NASA is advising ...

Meanwhile, astronomers are keeping watch for a rare nova—a sudden explosion of a distant star—that could appear to the naked ...

The nova won’t look like an explosion, but like a new star that wasn’t there before. Any day now, a massive stellar blast could light up the night sky so brightly, you won't even need a ...

With 3,000 light-years between the star and Earth, predicting such a phenomenon can be tricky. A nova explosion is different ... that fling matter into space without destroying the star.

Light from the nova's stellar explosion will make it seem ... an assistant research scientist specializing in nova events at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in an earlier article.