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

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my research would eventually lead me to ask a question about the origin of ...

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

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

During the last few days, astronomers have been pointing their telescopes toward a familiar celestial object in our spring night sky for a look at a rare event: A new supernova — a star that has ...

An annotated picture shows the SN 2023ixf supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy. The supernova is the closest seen in five years.International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. This article is more than 4 years old. The Carina Nebula, with Eta ...

The “star stuff” that astronomer Carl Sagan famously said we are all made of was forged in the exploding supernovae of dying stars. The phrase isn’t just a pithy remark for a bumper sticker, it’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A bright red supergiant star in our galaxy that’s near the ...

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Supernovae usually appear suddenly in the sky, but now astronomers have spotted one in advance. The telltale sign is a star with a “teardrop” shape, as it gets stretched out by the gravitational pull ...