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

Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you, wait a minute, why are you twinkling so much? Um, guys, that's no ...

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

A research team led by Caltech may have just discovered the first-ever superkilonova, a cosmic phenomenon in which a star ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

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 ...

A new discovery about what happens when a supernova – an exploding star – and a black hole collide could change the way scientists understand the lives and deaths of stars. The finding was the first ...

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 ...

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