Stargazers watched the skies with bated breath on Thursday night in hopes that T Coronae Borealis, a system consisting of a hot, red giant star and a cool, white dwarf star about 3,000 light-years ...

The nearby T Coronae Borealis system could still explode any day now, but calculations suggest the next best chance for fireworks is later this year.

This image features a deep field view of the Cassiopeia constellation immersed in the glow of ionized hydrogen gas, where the ...

A faint star in a constellation visible from the Northern Hemisphere after dark may explode on Thursday in what's going to be ...

A red giant star and white dwarf orbit each other in this animation of a nova similar to T Coronae Borealis. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers have been watching a small constellation ...

Schneider, too, admitted that no one can predict the nova. Astronomers say that the star explosion takes place once after T ...

T Corona Borealis (T CrB) is a captivating symbiotic binary system consisting of a white dwarf and a red giant star. The white dwarf, a compact remnant of a sun-like star, possesses a mass equal to ...

T CrB is a symbiotic binary, a vampire system in which a white dwarf is siphoning material from a red giant star. A white dwarf is the dense, compact core remnant of a once sun-like star ...

The explosion released elements heavier than iron—like gold and platinum—through a process known as rapid neutron capture ...