Astronomers have spotted another never-before-seen "nova" blaze to life in the night sky. This may be the first time that ...

The never-before-seen "nova," dubbed V462 Lupi, recently appeared in the constellation Lupus, after suddenly becoming 4 ...

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The nova V462 Lupi was first discovered on June 12 by the Ohio State University-led All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae ...

Over time, these stars became known as Wolf-Rayet stars (Charles Wolf was a French astronomer, and helium was first detected by the French scientist Georges Rayet and others), and astronomers came to ...

Exploding stars V462 Lupi and V572 Velorum are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere. One has been spotted from the United States.

T Coronae Borealis, a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth, is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. And if the recurring nova follows its usual pattern, we can expect to see ...

An object bright enough to be seen streaking across the midday sky has fallen across parts of the Southeast U.S.

For most of human history, the stars blazed in an otherwise dark night sky. But starting around the Industrial Revolution, as artificial light increasingly lit cities and towns at night, the stars ...

If you missed out on the annular eclipse and the total eclipse in the past 12 months, there's about to be another once-in-a-lifetime sky-watching event — and this one should last several days.

The globular cluster Messier 22 (M22) reaches its highest point in the sky around midnight local time, specifically for ...

On any clear night, find the stars of the Big Dipper high in the northern sky. Trace the Big Dipper's handle of stars in a curve to Arcturus, a bright, reddish star above the eastern horizon.