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

A research team led by Caltech may have just discovered the first-ever superkilonova, a cosmic phenomenon in which a star ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...

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

Astronomers may have discovered the first example of an explosive cosmic event called a "superkilonova," in the form of a ...

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

Astronomers have obtained remarkably detailed images of two stellar explosions -- called novae -- just days after they began.

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 ...

Mike Lambert heard fewer illegal fireworks exploding in his suburban Honolulu neighborhood in the months after a chain of ...

A team of astronomers believe they've witnessed, for the first time, a star exploding in a mythical "superkilonova." ...