The "new stars" are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, but people have spotted them from the United States by looking ...

Less than two weeks later, on June 25, reports began to circulate of a second nova blossoming in the southern night sky, this time in the constellation Vela. This nova — later designated V572 Velorum ...

By studying faint vibrations within stars, scientists using the Keck Planet Finder have discovered internal features that ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

The WNBA Commissioner’s Cup championship is Tuesday, when the Minnesota Lynx and Indiana Fever will compete to take home the ...

In an extraordinary celestial coincidence, two "new stars" -scientifically known as novae -are currently visible to the naked ...

Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies.