Supernovae aren't one of the JWST's main science themes, but the perceptive telescope is full of surprises. Recently, it ...

NASA’s Webb Telescope detects the earliest known supernova, GRB 250314A, 730 million years after the Big Bang, capturing its ...

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

Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years ...

A faint, tiny flash of red light glimpsed at the Cosmic Dawn more than 13 billion years ago has smashed the record for the ...

For the first time, scientists have made a clear X-ray detection of chlorine and potassium in the wreckage of a star using ...

Berkeley and elsewhere have performed spectroscopic and photometric study of a peculiar supernova designated SN 2021ukt, ...

Some white dwarfs in rapid binary orbits are far hotter and larger than theory predicts. Researchers found that powerful tidal forces between them generate enough heat to inflate their sizes and ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope discovers the oldest supernova ever seen, offering insights into early universe star formation ...

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical ...

Astronomers recognize three flavors of type I supernovae: type Ia, Ib, and Ic. Type Ia supernovae occur in binary systems, where matter from a normal companion star flows onto a white dwarf. The white ...

How much light does a supernova shed on the history of universe? New research by cosmologists at the University of Chicago and Wayne State University confirms the accuracy of Type Ia supernovae in ...