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

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

SN Ares might be the most exciting one. The star exploded when the universe was about one-third of its current age.

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

The scientists realized that these supernovae weren’t as nearby as they had thought, so they had zipped away from Earth ...

Exploding stars in near-solar space may have triggered at least two mass extinction events in Earth's history. An analysis of the frequency of supernova explosions in the Milky Way, led by ...

It’s easy to forget that stars, just like us, have lifetimes. They’re born, they live, and eventually, they die. And for some stars, their death is dramatic, producing an explosion so powerful it can ...

Supernovae, the explosive deaths of stars, are some of the universe's biggest bursts of energy and light. When they erupt, one supernova can shine even brighter than an entire galaxy. It's a fitting ...

Dark energy, a force responsible for the expansion of the universe, is mostly unknown. But this month, researchers released a new survey meant to unpack its mysteries. Dark energy, a force responsible ...

Isn’t it amazing that the heavy elements we see here on Earth were created by stars going supernova? The short answer to your question is that different kinds of supernovae are caused by different ...

Supernova destroying planet, illustration. A rocky planet lies in the wake of its star, which has just gone supernova. The explosion shatters the planet. A complete census of massive stars in our part ...

Few things have more influence in the cosmos than the most violent celestial death we know of: the supernova. These stellar finales are so extreme that not only do they shape the space directly around ...