A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to discover a former star that ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the first published detection of a supernova progenitor in galaxy NGC 1637, revealing a red supergiant star before explosion.

A burst of light in the deep sky is doing something it should not be able to do. It looks like one supernova, but it shows up ...

Researchers used James Webb Telescope images to identify the star, which went supernova 40 million years ago ...

A rare gravitationally lensed supernova called SN 2025wny appears in five separate images due to the gravity of two ...

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 light of the oldest supernova ever seen, dating back 13 billion years to just 730 million years after the Big Bang, has been captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The supernova was ...

An international team of astronomers has conducted photometric and spectroscopic observations of a recently discovered ...

This supernova signaled the explosive death of a supergiant star in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

The big picture: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently managed to capture imagery of the oldest and farthest known supernova explosion – an event that occurred when the universe was just 730 ...

A deep space photographer spent months photographing the Crab Nebula and found his composite image, when compared with the 1999 image from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the supernova's expansion.

Astronomers report a supergiant star in the Andromeda Galaxy, M31-2014-DS1, collapsed directly into a black hole without a supernova, confirming predictions of failed stellar explosions.