A massive star may have burst, leaving behind two dense, dead cores, which then collided and caused another explosion ...

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

A mysterious cosmic explosion linked to gravitational waves may reveal a previously unknown type of supernova event - a ...

A puzzling cosmic blast detected in both light and gravitational waves may hint at a previously unseen type of explosion, ...

A double explosion, in which a dying star split, then recombined, may be a long-hypothesized but never-before-seen "superkilonova." ...

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

Learn more about the supernova, which is more than a billion years older than the previous record-holder.

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 ...

Scientists have for the first time peered inside a dying star as it exploded in a supernova, gaining not just unprecedented views of its layers, but more so, insight into the process of stellar ...

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...