By analyzing the data from the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) international database and the Small ...

During a nova event, explains NASA, energy explodes from a white dwarf star. Hounsell said white dwarf stars aren't much larger in size than planet Earth. Usually they're too dim to see at night, but ...

Over a billion miles from the sun, beyond the rocky inner planets and the gas giants, lie the ice words—Uranus and Neptune. NOVA takes you inside the missions that rewrote the story of the outer ...

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 ...

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The hunt is on for Earthlike planets outside our solar system that may harbor life. Astronomer Geoff Marcy explains the challenges of finding infinitesimally small planets orbiting huge, very ...

Freya Allan's Nova is not all she appears to be in Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes, and the actress took a very specific approach to the role.