Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

The cosmic record breaker has now been confirmed by astronomers, who see that the James Webb Space Telescope has detected ...

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

A double blast of dying stars may be the first observed case of a long-hypothesized, never proven “superkilonova.” Although ...

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

The Webb space telescope observed a supernova that took place when the universe was 730 million years old, setting a new ...

For the first time, astronomers have captured the brilliance of a superluminous supernova via gravitational lensing.

Astronomers from Texas have witnessed the moment a star’s surface is torn apart by a supernova, becoming oblong in the process and producing more light than the entire galaxy for an instant.

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