Using the Hubble Space Telescope and an array of other instruments, astronomers have probed supernova wreckage in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the galaxy next door.

The Webb space telescope observed a supernova that took place when the universe was 730 million years old, setting a new ...

The bright binary star system V Sagittae will flare up multiple times before finally going supernova within the next 100 ...

The light of the oldest supernova ever seen, dating back 13 billion years to just 730 million years after the Big Bang, has ...

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

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

For years, scientists thought they understand what happens when stars explode. New earliest-ever mages of supernova events ...

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical ...

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.

On April 10, 2024, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected first light from an explosion of a massive star with roughly 12 to 15 times the sun’s mass. Just 26 hours later, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the oldest supernova ever observed, linked to GRB 250314A just 730 million years ...

Two new stars, or nova eruptions, have been resolved in unprecedented detail by six optical telescopes operating in unison as ...