A burst of light in the deep sky is doing something it should not be able to do. It looks like one supernova, but it shows up ...

Researchers used James Webb Telescope images to identify the star, which went supernova 40 million years ago ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the first published detection of a supernova progenitor in galaxy NGC 1637, revealing a red supergiant star before explosion.

Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have for the first time identified the progenitor of a nearby supernova -- a red supergiant star cloaked in thick, dust-rich shrouds that ...

Astrophysicists measured the light for exploding stars called supernovae to arrive at the most precise limits yet for the universe's composition - Copyright AFP/File ...

I was exploding with excitement to ask my friend Guy Worthey about supernovas. He’s an astronomer at Washington State University. He told me a supernova is a very energetic explosion in space. There ...