The nova is ignited when a "vampirific" white dwarf steals too much matter from a companion star.
Space News & Blog Articles
The Death Star’s technological terror looms, and the Rebellion rises to meet the threat in this thrilling trailer for Andor Season 2.
Rocket Lab is planning to launch eight wildfire detection satellites from New Zealand on March 26 during a window that opens at 11:30 a.m. EST (1530 GMT).
This new moon of March 2025 will create a partial solar eclipse visible in the northeastern part of North America, much of Europe and Russia.
Aurora chasers are on high alert for geomagnetic storm conditions overnight with northern lights possible at mid-latitudes.
During the partial solar eclipse on March 29, 2025, a weird "double sunrise" will grace the skies between Canada's St Lawrence River and the Bay of Fundy, via the easternmost point of the U.S.
U.S. Space Force Col. Nick Hague is back on Earth after living on the International Space Station for the last five-plus months.
While the presence of these molecules is not proof of ancient life on Mars, scientists say it shows we could detect chemical signatures of past life, if it ever existed.
Paris, France is seen lit up in this photo taken aboard the International Space Staton.
Retrofuturistic styling, synthetics with no regard for human life, and people being munched like popcorn — that's the Alien we know and love alright.
"The respective sizes of the two arcs also create a great symbolic representation of the difference in scale between what we experience and deal with as humans on Earth and the vastness and grandeur of the scale of space and our closest neighbor"
BioWare's follow-up to the original Mass Effect trilogy is still a ways off, but we already have an extensive list of things we'd love to see happen.
NASA's next moon rocket is coming together at the agency's Kennedy Space Center, as the SLS core stage gets its solid rocket boosters.
A nearly month-long mission is ready to lift off, with preparations being made at the Kennedy Center. To be clear, not NASA's Kennedy Space Center, but the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
View the March 29 partial solar eclipse safely with these certified solar viewing glasses for under $9.
Two nearby explosive massive star deaths, or supernovas, may have triggered mass extinction events in Earth's distant past, new research suggests.
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a blistering 19-hour orbit.
SpaceX set a new rocket-reuse record early Friday morning (March 21) when it launched a batch of spy satellites for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.
A pod of bottlenose dolphins seemingly took interest in the capsule that dropped out of the sky, circling and surfacing as SpaceX team members worked to recover their spacecraft.
Three giants in the camera industry — but which one has the best astrophotography features for you?
A cosmic coincidence has led to one of the most amazing images ever captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

