Baby pictures of a newborn supernova have captured this stellar explosion after the first half-dozen hours of its life, shedding light on how these giant explosions happen, a new study finds. This ...

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

The supernova was first observed Tuesday (Jan. 21) at 7:20 p.m. local time (19:20 UTC) by a group of students led by Steve Fossey at the University College London. "It was a surreal and exciting ...

The telescope observed a supernova that exploded when the universe was only 730 million years old, along with its faint host ...

A new discovery is casting doubt on the idea that a type of star explosion shines with equal brightness wherever it occurs in the universe. The finding could have implications for estimates of the ...

Astronomers are a step closer to cracking one of the secrets of dark energy—the mysterious force believed to be causing the universe's accelerated expansion.

Astronomers have spotted something truly baffling: a new light 500 million light years away that looked exactly like a supernova…but acted like no supernova observed before. The new discovery and its ...

The most massive and luminous stars were long suspected to explode when they die, and astronomers now have the most direct evidence yet that these cosmic behemoths go out with a bang. These findings ...

New findings have revealed that a supernova struck Earth 10 million years ago, and the evidence lies at the bottom of the sea. An unexpected deep-sea deposit ...

What started out as a 10-minute telescope lesson turned into something much more exciting, as a group of astronomy students at the University College London raced against encroaching cloud cover to ...

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