Any day now, a massive stellar blast dubbed "the Blaze Star" could light up the night sky so brightly, you won't even need a telescope to see it.

You may have the opportunity to spot a rare explosion in outer space — the rebirth of a star. The unique cosmic event is referred to as a "nova" and will take place in the Corona Borealis ...

A fleet of NASA missions has likely uncovered a collision between two ultradense stars in a tiny galaxy buried in a huge stream of gas. Astronomers have never seen this type of explosive event in an ...

A new, extremely deep photo of the site of a supernova explosion that was observed in 1957 has revealed X-rays emanating from the source. The photo, taken by NASA's Chandra X-Ray space telescope, is ...