However, excitement about the nova has grown since astronomers observed the star suddenly dim, per NASA, much as it did right ...

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

it could become as bright as Polaris, the North Star. Polaris is one of the brightest stars in the night sky. This event will be visible in the North Texas sky for a week. T Corona Borealis will ...

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

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

We are all searching for the “still point of the turning world,” as poet T. S. Eliot wrote. For the brief moment in universal ...

NASA has revealed its top skywatching tips for May, and they include a meteor shower, lots of planets, and possibly a nova.

In the case of bright stars, particularly close to the horizon, they can seem to splinter momentarily into all the colors of the rainbow. But no star can rival Sirius, which scintillates with such ...

Look north to find the Big Dipper and locate the ... which holds the point of the Triangle marked by magnitude 0.8 Altair. Center this bright star in binoculars, then slide 2° northwest to ...