For more than a century, astronomers have known that some “new stars” flaring into view are not births at all but violent ...

Astronomers have long struggled to capture the true nature of stellar nova explosions. However, thanks to cutting-edge ...

Scientists have been looking for extra-solar planets for decades, but only recently, with better equipment and improved techniques, have they finally unveiled new and unusual planets. Since 1995, over ...

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YAHOO.COM - You may have seen pictures of our planet from space, but never quite like this. A new NOVA show on PBS, "Earth from Space," features amazing images captured by satellites used to observe ...

Proxima Centauri, the sun’s nearest neighbor among the stars, is 25 trillion miles away from Earth. Even if it had a family of planets, no telescope could reveal them. According to Sir James Jeans, a ...

You've been selected to be the lead scientist for the NOVA Space Center’s Galactic Resettlement team, with the job of finding suitable exoplanets for displaced aliens desperately seeking new homes.