You might get the chance to see a rare cosmic event in just a few weeks. Astronomers anticipate that a nearby exploding star could appear in the night skies across the Northern Hemisphere.

A nearby exploding star is poised to illuminate the night sky, potentially outshining even the North Star, in what NASA describes as a "once-in-a-lifetime" spectacle expected to occur between now ...

There’s a famous scene in one of the Star Trek movies where Scotty ... about why metals aren’t normally transparent. Well, that, and exploding sodium. We’ve looked at so-called transparent ...