One such occasion occurred earlier in 2025, when NASA scientists reported sightings of a supernova that exploded when the ...

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

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

The Webb space telescope observed a supernova that took place when the universe was 730 million years old, setting a new ...

Supernovae aren't one of the JWST's main science themes, but the perceptive telescope is full of surprises. Recently, it ...

Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed the universe's earliest supernova. This event offers a rare glimpse into the ...

A distant gamma-ray burst has led astronomers to a rare supernova from the Universe’s early years, revealed by JWST. But why ...

The telescope captured near-infrared light from one of the earliest stars seen to explode in the history of the universe.

For the first time, astronomers have captured the brilliance of a superluminous supernova via gravitational lensing.

The James Webb Space Telescope and other international observatories have spotted a 13-billion-year-old supernova. On Tuesday ...

I was exploding with excitement to ask my friend Guy Worthey about supernovas. He’s an astronomer at Washington State University. He told me a supernova is a very energetic explosion in space. There ...