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

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has recently made a historic observation, identifying the earliest supernova ever detected. This discovery, made possible by Webb’s advanced imaging capabilities, was ...

"We might lose the ability to observe about 30% of the faintest galaxies. We are at the point of starting to be able to see ...

"This observation also demonstrates that we can use Webb to find individual stars when the universe was only 5% of its ...

The bright binary star system V Sagittae will flare up multiple times before finally going supernova within the next 100 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope and other international observatories have spotted a 13-billion-year-old supernova. On Tuesday ...

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

Space is inaccessible to the vast majority of us, but it’s not as far away as you might think. The von Kármán Line, which is ...

The universe is expanding, but astronomers still cannot agree on exactly how fast. That mismatch, known as the Hubble tension ...

An immensely powerful flash detected earlier this year was created by a massive star exploding when the universe was just five percent of its current age, astronomers said Tuesday.

With contributions from Brown faculty and students, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment analyzed the largest dataset ever collected by ...