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.

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In a first-ever near-infrared study of a recurrent nova beyond the Milky Way, astronomers have discovered exceptionally high temperatures and unexpected chemical signatures, pointing to an especially ...

Astronomers at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan have teamed up on research that's taken the highest-resolution images to date of star explosions called novae (the plural of ...