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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a stellar explosion from a time when the cosmos was still in its infancy, catching ...

For more than a century, astronomers have known that some “new stars” flaring into view are not births at all but violent ...

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the journal Science Advances. It suggests that when our solar system formed, a ...

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my ...

Supernova PTF 11kly, a Type Ia supernova located 21 million light-years away in the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101), was detected within hours of its explosion, representing the closest such event observed in ...

Our solar system is a weird place. Much more than a home to eight planets, it’s filled with a myriad of fascinating other smaller bodies, including moons, asteroids, and comets. In recent decades, ...

The absence of observed supernovae in the Milky Way for 400 years refers to visual observations within the galaxy itself, excluding events in other galaxies like the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).

Astronomers’ best view yet of the aftermath of a “guest star” supernova seen in 12th-century China and Japan has revealed one of the strangest objects in the heavens. It consists of hundreds of ...