James Webb has spotted the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding just 730 million years after the Big Bang, offering ...
This artist's impression shows, about 22 million light-years away, the supernova SN 2024ggi exploding in the galaxy NGC 3621. (ESO/L. Calçada via SWNS) By Dean Murray Scientists have revealed for the ...
A flash of energetic light lasts only ten seconds, yet it has completely turned around our understanding of the timeline for ...
A team of astronomers believe they've witnessed, for the first time, a star exploding in a mythical "superkilonova." ...
A research team led by Caltech may have just discovered the first-ever superkilonova, a cosmic phenomenon in which a star ...
What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...
An exploding star may have sent cosmic shrapnel flying to hit Earth 10 million years ago, and astronomers have now narrowed down the most likely culprits behind this interstellar incident. Earlier ...
Dark matter, if it exists, is probably in the latter category. If hypothetical weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are real, their collisions with regular matter may have left fossil traces ...
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 ...