The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the light of a star that exploded when the universe was still in its cosmic youth ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has recently made a historic observation, identifying the earliest supernova ever detected. This discovery, made possible by Webb’s advanced imaging capabilities, was ...

"This observation also demonstrates that we can use Webb to find individual stars when the universe was only 5% of its ...

Supernovae aren't one of the JWST's main science themes, but the perceptive telescope is full of surprises. Recently, it ...

The telescope captured near-infrared light from one of the earliest stars seen to explode in the history of the universe.

Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years ...

Using cutting-edge theoretical models and data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have transformed astronomical observations into detailed 3D models of cosmic objects — models that ...

A distant gamma-ray burst has led astronomers to a rare supernova from the Universe’s early years, revealed by JWST. But why ...

Bennu asteroid samples returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reveal life's building blocks, including sugars like ribose and ...

The space agency said supernovas typically brighten rapidly over a period of several weeks before they slowly start to dim. This example, however, took months to ...