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

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

A massive star may have burst, leaving behind two dense, dead cores, which then collided and caused another explosion ...

Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you, wait a minute, why are you twinkling so much? Um, guys, that's no ...

A mysterious cosmic explosion linked to gravitational waves may reveal a previously unknown type of supernova event - a ...

Learn more about the supernova, which is more than a billion years older than the previous record-holder.

The combination of a supernova and a kilonova may have produced a rare space explosion that astronomers have never seen ...

A superkilonova candidate event, named AT2025ulz, was observed in 2025; LIGO and Virgo first spotted gravitational waves, ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a massive star just 730 million years after the Big ...

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 ...