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 ...

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.

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 ...

The night sky, he told them, is not just a spectacle, but a critical piece of cultural heritage. Peering up at the stars and wondering is as ancient and universal as dance or song or music.

Sirius, one of the nearest stars to our solar system, will be briefly occulted by a three mile-wide asteroid called 4388 Jurgen, but only for those inside a narrow path through Mexico, US, and Canada.

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Sirius is bright enough to dominate the night sky after sunset particularly if there are no planets around. It’s very bright because: Sirius is a big blue-white star 25 times the mass of our Sun.

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 ...

The higher the star in the sky, the more steady and white its light appears to be. At 8.6 light years away , Sirius is one of the closest stars to Earth, which is why it shines so brightly ...