T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), known as the "Blaze Star," is expected to undergo a rare thermonuclear explosion. Astronomers had ...

Follow the arc of its handle to Arcturus ... the white dwarf in this binary system accumulates enough material from its companion red giant star to trigger a thermonuclear explosion.

In March 2025 we have a fine opportunity to view the planet that many astronomy guide books refer to as the most difficult of ...

With a recurrent nova explosion, a very rare event, it's worth finding its patch of sky now in the night sky so you know where to look — and are more easily impressed — when it briefly becomes visible ...

The remark about Copernicus is rather ironic, for he was the man who pushed hard for placing the sun and not the Earth at the center of our solar system ... hued star Arcturus), Mercury should ...

In March the bright winter constellations of Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini, Taurus and Auriga fill the southern sky stretching all the way to zenith — the point directly overhead.

That vessel — a double-hulled sailing canoe called the Hokulea, after the Hawaiian name for the star Arcturus — would ... in the U.S. of a state court system tapping artificial intelligence ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...

High-resolution near-infrared light captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope shows extraordinary new detail ...