Nova explosions, which were thought until now to be relatively simple, are actually turning out to be very different. An ...

For more than a century, astronomers have known that some “new stars” flaring into view are not births at all but violent ...

Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars ...

Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their eruption and in unprecedented detail. The breakthrough provides direct evidence that these explosions are ...

The next time you use your phone, you should raise your eyes to the skies and say thanks to ... a dying star. More specifically, you should thank the explosions that happen on a class of celestial ...