The findings reveal unusual chemical signatures and offer new insights into the behavior of novas beyond the Milky Way.

A star called T Corona Borealis is expected to "go nova" next week, making the star briefly visible to the naked eye, which ...

Nova explosions occur in binary star systems in which a white dwarf—the dense remnant of a dead star—continually siphons ...

The two stars are taking turns feeding off one another. A flash of powerful X-ray light coming from a nova explosion on a white dwarf star has caught the attention of astronomers using the Chinese ...

A shockingly bright Nova explosion occurred right on cue, but its brilliance and strange chemical signature baffled astronomers.

Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...

Located some 1,400 light years away, GK Persei (also known as A 0327+43 or Nova Persei 1901) is a cataclysmic variable consisting of a magnetized white dwarf (WD) and a K2-type subgiant star with ...

Scientists already know that a planet must be in the “Goldilocks zone”—not too hot and not too cold—to have liquid water, a ...

Researchers believe they've found evidence that a white dwarf may have torn a Jupiter-sized planet apart. A white dwarf is the stellar core left behind after a dying star has exhausted its nuclear ...

Astronomers uncover extremely hot and violent eruption from first ever near-infrared analysis of a recurrent nova outside of the Milky Way Galaxy Almost all novae discovered to-date have been ...