Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught what appears to be the earliest supernova humanity has ever seen, a stellar death ...

Supernovae are supposed to explode once and disappear forever. Yet astronomers say one will appear again in 2037. This sounds ...

Supernova, a new key plot detail for the upcoming Monsterverse movie has finally been revealed, confirming the titular duo’s ...

Astronomers report a strange cosmic blast that looked like a kilonova, then behaved like a supernova, hinting at a possible first “superkilonova” and leaving scientists debating how stars truly die.

The combination of a supernova and a kilonova may have produced a rare space explosion that astronomers have never seen ...

Webb traced the light of a dying star, supernova GRB 250314A, from when the universe was only 730 million years old.

When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the ...

Yu-Jing Qin, a postdoctoral researcher at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), led a series of spectroscopic ...

A double blast of dying stars may be the first observed case of a long-hypothesized, never proven “superkilonova.” Although ...