Astronomers have teamed up with citizen scientists to discover a brand-new exploding star that's greedily feeding on a ...

In a groundbreaking development, a team of astronomers, in collaboration with citizen scientists, has uncovered a new and ...

A dramatic cosmic event, a rare dwarf nova that suddenly brightened by a factor of 2,500, has been discovered with the help ...

Previously described as playing astronomical "spot the difference," Kilonova Seekers asks the public to compare the latest ...

A cataclysmic variable star isn’t technically a single object. Instead, it’s a compact binary system composed of a white ...

Citizen scientists working with the Kilonova Project made their first confirmed discovery of a rare exploding star, enabling ...

Sky watchers around the world have a new star to hunt for in the night sky, thanks to a recently detected explosion in our ...

The new star is visible in the southern constellation Lupus, according to the American Association of Variable Star Observers database. Screengrab of Facebook photo shared by Victor Gabriel Trombotto ...