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

A supernova from the early universe looks unexpectedly familiar, challenging ideas about how the first massive stars lived ...

Any day now, a massive stellar blast could light up the night sky so brightly, you won't even need a telescope to see it. Sound familiar? In case you're wondering, yes, this is the same so-called nova ...

A "new star" is expected to appear in night skies soon due to a distant nova explosion. Originally, the T Coronae Borealis star system, which is 3,000 light years away from Earth, was expected to ...

Astronomers have been waiting patiently for months for light from a distant explosion to reach Earth, and the wait might finally pay off, according to NASA. Scientists alerted the public last year ...

LONDON – A group of researchers claim they’ve found the most distant explosion ever detected, a pulse of high energy radiation sent by a disintegrating star near the very edge of the observable ...

This supernova is one for the record books. A mammoth star explosion known as SN2016aps, which occurred in a galaxy about 3.6 billion light-years from Earth, is the brightest supernova ever seen, a ...

Discovery of SN 2025wny: A Strongly Graviatationally Lensed Supernova at z=2.01. Joel Johansson et al (2025). Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University An international team of astronomers led by Oskar ...