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

The telescope observed a supernova that exploded when the universe was only 730 million years old, along with its faint host ...

Previously, the most ancient supernova ever confirmed dated back to when the universe was 1.8 billion years old.

A faint, ancient flash of light detected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has broken the record for the most distant ...

The space agency said supernovas typically brighten rapidly over a period of several weeks before they slowly start to dim. This example, however, took months to ...

Thanks to sufficient advance warning, the James Webb Space Telescope was able to study the earliest supernova by far. A gamma-ray burst had announced it.

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Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star's surface. For ...

A new discovery about what happens when a supernova – an exploding star – and a black hole collide could change the way scientists understand the lives and deaths of stars. The finding was the first ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The explosive death of a star - a supernova - is among the most violent cosmic events, but precisely how this cataclysm looks as it unfolds has remained mysterious. Scientists ...