In the primordial darkness, after the Big Bang, nothing drifted but a vast sea of hydrogen and helium. It wasn't until stars ...

Astronomers are anticipating a spectacular event in the night sky in 2025: the nova explosion of T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), a rare phenomenon that occurs roughly every 80 years. This binary star ...

Krystnell Storr, who joins GBH as the first-ever science and equity editor for NOVA, says she has landed the “dream job.” Storr will work on developing and editing content at all stages of development ...

For the first time in 80 years, a star system 3,000 light years away will be visible to the naked eye thanks to a ...

Today's physicists are struggling with a quandary. They have accepted two separate theories that explain how the universe works: Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which describes the ...

partly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and operated by NSF NOIRLab, and the Magellan Baade Telescope, astronomers have for the first time observed a recurring nova outside of the ...

T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), popularly known as the "Blaze Star," is surely on the verge of a rare and dramatic brightening.