An international team of astronomers, working with researchers from University College Dublin and other institutions, has ...

In the year 185 C.E, Chinese astronomers spotted a supernova and dubbed it the "guest star." The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American ...

The supernova SN 2025wny is hopelessly far, lying approximately 10 billion light-years from Earth. Normally, this would make it impossible for astronomers to detect. But one team got lucky. While ...

Supernovae aren't one of the JWST's main science themes, but the perceptive telescope is full of surprises. Recently, it pinpointed a single star in a galaxy when the universe was only about 730 ...

This weekend, the beloved community festival SUPERNOVA returns for its biggest celebration yet as it marks its 10-year milestone at The Lafitte Greenway. The three-day, free, family-friendly, ...

A faint, tiny flash of red light glimpsed at the Cosmic Dawn more than 13 billion years ago has smashed the record for the earliest supernova ever observed. And here's the kicker: The light from the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope and other international observatories have spotted a 13-billion-year-old supernova. On Tuesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced the sighting of a gamma-ray ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed the oldest known supernova—the explosive death of a star that lived when the universe was only 730 million years old. The ancient blast occurred when the ...

"This observation also demonstrates that we can use Webb to find individual stars when the universe was only 5% of its current age." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The bright binary star system V Sagittae will flare up multiple times before finally going supernova within the next 100 years. When it explodes, it could be visible to the naked eye even in sunlit ...