Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new Type II supernova. The ...

This newly discovered explosion from the dawn of time is helping scientists map the chemical evolution of the first galaxies.

The mysterious 10-second flash of energy, first detected in March, has been identified thanks to NASA's ever-impressive James ...

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.

A mysterious 10-second signal just rocked the world of astrophysics — and it came from 13 billion light-years away. In ...

In a remarkable revelation, NASA and its international partners have recorded a signal from deep space that traveled an astonishing 13 billion years to reach Earth. This fleeting 10-second gamma-ray ...

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), detecting a supernova—the explosive death of a massive star—at an ...

An international team of astronomers, working with researchers from University College Dublin and other institutions, has detected a supernova from an era once thought far beyond reach. Using the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has picked up the light from a massive star that exploded about a billion years after the ...

I was exploding with excitement to ask my friend Guy Worthey about supernovas. He’s an astronomer at Washington State University. He told me a supernova is a very energetic explosion in space. There ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova remnant that had not been observed before." When you purchase through links on ...