A star system located 3,000 lightyears away is set to explode soon, promising a rare celestial spectacle visible from Earth.

When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.

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

T Coronae Borealis, a faint star in the Northern Crown constellation, is on the verge of exploding in a nova ... who specialises in nova events at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre, earlier ...

An illustration shows a star exploding as a "Intermediate Luminosity ... In the insert at the top right is shown - with data from NASA's Spitzer telescope - the evolution over the years of this ...

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We expect that [T Coronae Borealis] will erupt any night now, any month now,” Bradley Schaefer, a Louisiana State University ...

NASA's James Webb Telescope has been investigating the first-ever case of a star caught swallowing a planet —and, in classic ...