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

Astronomers have discovered a supernova so distant that it dates back to a time when the cosmos was still very young, thus ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, SN 2024ggi, revealed a surprisingly olive-shaped blast when studied with ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - The explosive death of a star - a supernova - is among the most violent cosmic events, but precisely how this cataclysm looks as it unfolds has remained mysterious.

The James Webb Space Telescope has pushed the cosmic frontier back to a time when the universe was still in its infancy, capturing the light of the most ancient supernova ever seen. By catching a ...

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

Supernovae represent the dramatic endpoints of stellar evolution, and recent studies have expanded our understanding of the complex interplay between explosion mechanisms and the nature of progenitor ...

Massive stars, those with initial masses exceeding eight times that of the Sun, undergo complex evolutionary processes that ultimately culminate in spectacular supernova explosions. During their ...