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

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The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a rare and tumultuous sight 15,000 light-years away from Earth. The space observatory captured an image of a Wolf-Rayet star called WR 124 in the Sagittarius ...

NASA is celebrating the holiday season with photographs of the remnants of a supernova star captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The star, named Cassiopeia A (Cas A), shines brightly from ...

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...

Thanks to lucky snapshots taken by an amateur astronomer in Argentina, scientists have obtained their first view of the initial burst of light from the explosion of a massive star. During tests of a ...

Astronomers have found evidence that a neutron star exists at the centre of the only exploding star – supernova – visible to the naked eye in the last 400 years, solving a 30-year-old mystery.

Astronomers have found strong evidence of a neutron star in the remnants of an exploding star (Nasa/Esa/CSA/M Matsuura [Cardiff University]/R Arendt [Nasa’s Goddard Spaceflight Centre and University ...