The new paper argues that, in SN 1181, the first phase of the supernova fizzled out and left behind an unusually active ...

From bone-wearing caterpillars to revived ancient wolves, 2025 delivered discoveries that unsettled science and stretched ...

James Webb has spotted the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding just 730 million years after the Big Bang, offering ...

A flash of energetic light lasts only ten seconds, yet it has completely turned around our understanding of the timeline for ...

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

From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...

Astronomers may have discovered the first example of an explosive cosmic event called a "superkilonova," in the form of a gravitational wave signal detected on Aug. 18, 2025.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a massive star just 730 million years after the Big ...

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...

Donald Trump was caught on camera falsely denying a claim he had made on camera just days prior. The president, 79, was pressed about footage showing a September 2 military strike on a suspected ...

The James Webb Space Telescope and other international observatories have spotted a 13-billion-year-old supernova. On Tuesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced the sighting of a gamma-ray ...

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...