A red giant star and white dwarf orbit each other in this animation of a nova. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Unlike other astronomical events we can see, like a planet conjunction or a ...

In our latest NOVA Lab, we’ve created a game that invites ... This method allows them to calculate each planet's volume, based on how much of the star's light it blocks from reaching our ...

NOVA Labs: Bursts of plasma released by the Sun create "space weather" around our planet. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle Companies. Major funding for NOVA is provided ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's MIRI instrument has captured the final moments of a planet's existence, unexpectedly ...

Marvel Comics is brimming with powerhouses that could arguably be the strongest forces on the planet, though one would be hard-pressed to find two heroes more powerful than Nova and the Hulk.