Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

Yu-Jing Qin, a postdoctoral researcher at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), led a series of spectroscopic ...

The supernova exploded over 13 billion years ago in a galaxy far, far away.

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

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

For the first time, astronomers have captured the brilliance of a superluminous supernova via gravitational lensing.

Astronomers from Texas have witnessed the moment a star's surface is torn apart by a supernova, becoming oblong in the process and producing more light than the entire galaxy for an instant.

NASA’s James Webb Telescope discovers the oldest supernova ever seen, offering insights into early universe star formation ...

A faint, ancient flash of light detected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has broken the record for the most distant ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy LEDA 22057, which is located about 650 ...

Almost a thousand years since its formation, the Crab Nebula sports complex shells of plasma, filled with tendrils, filaments ...

When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the ...