Astronomers using the JWST have traced the source of a long-duration gamma-ray burst back to a supernova that exploded around ...

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

Learn more about the supernova, which is more than a billion years older than the previous record-holder.

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

An international team of astronomers has, for the first time, successfully probed the early universe. An international group of astronomers has reached a new milestone in studying the early universe.

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

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

A puzzling cosmic blast detected in both light and gravitational waves may hint at a previously unseen type of explosion, challenging astronomers to rethink how neutron stars are born and collide.

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

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

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

I was exploding with excitement to ask my friend Guy Worthey about supernovas. He’s an astronomer at Washington State University. He told me a supernova is a very energetic explosion in space. There ...