The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a stellar explosion from a time when the cosmos was still in its infancy, catching ...

An international team of astronomers, working with researchers from University College Dublin and other institutions, has ...

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

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 ...

An international team of astronomers has, for the first time, successfully probed the early universe. An international group of astronomers has reached a new milestone in studying the early universe.

In October 2022, several space-based detectors picked up a powerful gamma-ray burst so energetic that astronomers nicknamed it the BOAT (Brightest Of All Time). Now they’ve confirmed that the GRB came ...

The tattered shell of the first-ever recorded supernova was captured by the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, which is mounted on the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Víctor M.

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

When a supernova was seen glittering in the night sky for six months in 1181, it was so bright that Chinese and Japanese astronomers recorded it as a “guest star” in the Cassiopeia constellation. Now, ...

NASA and University of Arizona researchers have discovered pristine mineral grains that formed in an ancient supernova explosion. The grains were among other extraterrestrial dust plucked by ...

A magnetar known to scientists for 17 years might not have come from a supernova, like the rest of its ultra-magnetic brethren. But where did it form, then? The Hubble Space Telescope is on the case.