Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made an unprecedented breakthrough, capturing the most distant ...

For more than a century, astronomers have known that some “new stars” flaring into view are not births at all but violent ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a massive star just 730 million years after the Big ...

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my ...

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the journal Science Advances. It suggests that when our solar system formed, a ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The insides of a star are on full display thanks to an explosion. New research published this month in Nature is revealing the details of a star’s core. “This is the first time we have ...

Supernova PTF 11kly, a Type Ia supernova located 21 million light-years away in the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101), was detected within hours of its explosion, representing the closest such event observed in ...

The absence of observed supernovae in the Milky Way for 400 years refers to visual observations within the galaxy itself, excluding events in other galaxies like the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).

Astronomers’ best view yet of the aftermath of a “guest star” supernova seen in 12th-century China and Japan has revealed one of the strangest objects in the heavens. It consists of hundreds of ...