A star called T Corona Borealis may "go nova" next week, making the star briefly visible to the naked eye. It last happened in 1787, 1866 and 1946.

You might get the chance to see a rare cosmic event in just a few weeks. Astronomers anticipate that a nearby exploding star could appear in the night skies across the Northern Hemisphere.

Astronomers have spotted signs that Betelgeuse, the closest supergiant star to Earth, could be about to explode as a ...

The nearby T Coronae Borealis system could still explode any day now, but calculations suggest the next best chance for ...

T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), also known as the Blaze Star, is a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth. It ...

The explosion will happen through a rare process called a quadruple detonation, where one blast triggers a chain of others, ...

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(Animation shows the violent death of a star) "The reason we're so excited is because it was so powerful we think it may require a new type of explosion mechanism that we've never observed before ...

NASA's Chandra telescope was used to uncover the explosive past of an ancient dead star through 'space archaeology.' ...

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 ...

Forbes reported that the star system, T Corona Borealis, exploded in 1787, 1866, and 1946, making it a predictable event witnessed by multiple generations of humanity. To spot the star, look for the ...