The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the light of a star that exploded when the universe was still in its cosmic youth ...

A supernova has been detected at an unprecedented cosmic distance. The explosion, designated SN in GRB 250314A, occurred when the universe was only about 730 million years old, placing it deep in the ...

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

The telescope captured near-infrared light from one of the earliest stars seen to explode in the history of the universe.

For the first time, astronomers have captured the brilliance of a superluminous supernova via gravitational lensing.

A distant gamma-ray burst has led astronomers to a rare supernova from the Universe’s early years, revealed by JWST. But why ...

NASA just released a new image from its Webb Space Telescope of renowned supernova SN 1987A, located 168,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It was first discovered in February 1987, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured some bizarre imagery of an exploding star that, for some reason, kept repeating itself. In a press release, NASA said that new Webb images of what ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy LEDA 22057, which is located about 650 ...

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, B. Frye (University of Arizona), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), S. Cohen (Arizona State University), J. D’Silva (University of ...

Through a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, three different moments in a far-off supernova explosion were captured in a single snapshot by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The light from the ...

The space agency said supernovas typically brighten rapidly over a period of several weeks before they slowly start to dim. This example, however, took months to ...