An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

Will two rare supernovas finally tell us how fast the universe is expanding? Perhaps, but we'll have to wait for it for them ...

In our galaxy, a supernova explodes about once or twice each century. But historical astronomical records show that the last ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) - The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times the mass of our sun that exhausts its ...

This supernova signaled the explosive death of a supergiant star in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

The big picture: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently managed to capture imagery of the oldest and farthest known supernova explosion – an event that occurred when the universe was just 730 ...

Earlier this year, a powerful gamma-ray burst traveled through space from a very distant source in the cosmos. The explosion was traced back to the early universe, just millions of years after the Big ...

The supernova SN 2025wny is hopelessly far, lying approximately 10 billion light-years from Earth. Normally, this would make it impossible for astronomers to detect. But one team got lucky. While ...

The main image at left shows a combined Webb and Hubble view of spiral galaxy NGC 1637, with the region of interest in the top right. The remaining three panels show a detailed view of a red ...