The study of novae and white dwarf systems reveals a fascinating interplay of stellar physics and binary interactions. Novae are explosive events triggered by a thermonuclear runaway on the surface of ...

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

Astronomers have been monitoring V Sagittae for over a century, a binary system whose evolution challenges classical models.

(This program is no longer available for online streaming.) In this two-hour special, NOVA captures the turmoil that tore apart the community of Dover, Pennsylvania in one of the latest battles over ...