Our neighborhood nova T Coronae Borealis is due to release a "hydrogen-bomb" worth of energy this September, a once-in-80-years event visible from Earth.

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA recently captured the "shockwave breakout" of red super giant more than 1.2 billion light-years from us. It was taken by the Kepler telescope in space ...

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1.2 billion years away from earth, NASA’s Kepler space telescope has managed to capture a spectacle never seen before by humans on camera: the brilliant flash of an exploding star’s shockwave.

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If a star explodes in space and no one is around to see it, does it wreak a change on terrestrial evolution? Yes, maybe – if you're a microbe quietly minding your own business in Lake Tanganyika ...

A nearby exploding star is poised to illuminate the night sky, potentially outshining even the North Star, in what NASA describes as a "once-in-a-lifetime" spectacle expected to occur between now ...

That's because, for three decades, these exploding stellar remnants have been ... that of the sun exist in a binary system with another star. That means that a great deal of white dwarfs also ...