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.

T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), also known as the Blaze Star, is a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth. It periodically explodes in a recurring nova every 79 years or so, and it’s due ...

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

NASA explains that the explosion occurs roughly every 78-80 years when the smaller white dwarf stars accretes too much hydrogen from the bigger red giant that it's orbiting. The thermonuclear ...

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

T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), popularly known as the "Blaze Star," is surely on the verge of a rare and dramatic brightening. This recurrent nova, located approximately 3,000 light-years away in the ...

A faint star in a constellation visible from the Northern Hemisphere after dark may explode on Thursday in what's going to be a once in 80 years occurrence.

T Coronae Borealis has an outburst every 79 to 80 years, according to NASA. The once-in-a-lifetime explosion of T Coronae Borealis, also known as the "Blaze Star," is still pending -- but the ...

According to astronomers, the Betelgeuse red supergiant star, appears to be on its last legs due to its increasingly volatile behaviour in the past couple of years. Situated in the Orion constellation ...

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