Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered a supernova erupting just 1.1 billion years after the Big Bang.

Astronomers caught a massive star exploding 500 million light-years away almost from the moment the event began. A brief X-ray flash detected on March 21, 2026 turned out to be the opening signal of ...

The new image isn’t just stunning—it may also provide clues about how this star survived its own explosion. Previous images of the explosion’s remnants had also captured a sphere of long, ...

A spectacular supernova, SN 2026aaiv, has erupted in the spiral galaxy NGC 7331, located 45 million light-years away in the Pegasus constellation and visible from both hemispheres.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a possible supernova in the early universe just days after the star ...

Astronomers captured the clearest view yet of Pa 30, the likely remains of a stellar explosion witnessed nearly 850 years ago.

A star survived the explosion that left behind Pa 30, a dandelion-shaped cloud of debris. The sharpest images yet show that ...

The only known supernova remnant of its kind in the Milky Way has an unexpectedly intricate structure: chains of gas knots resembling pearls on a string, each wide enough to fit the solar system ...

This artist’s animation shows a star going supernova. About 22 million light-years away the supernova, SN 2024ggi, exploded in the galaxy NGC 3621. Using the ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A catalog of 2,884 Type Ia supernovae strengthens hints that dark energy may change as the universe evolves. (CREDIT: Shutterstock ...

When a star reaches its final stages of life, it ends in a bright and powerful explosion called a supernova and scatters material across the universe. A new study led by a University of Hawaiʻi at ...

UC Berkeley supernova and black hole expert Alex Filippenko will share the 2026 Gruber Cosmology Prize, which was announced today (May 19) by the Gruber Foundation. The prize, one of the most ...