A study published this August in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society investigated a binary star ...

When a massive star dies, astronomers expect a familiar chemical script: hydrogen and helium on the outside, heavier elements ...

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

The surprisingly high amounts of chlorine and potassium in a supernova remnant could help solve the mystery of where these crucial elements come from ...

Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years ...

The light of the oldest supernova ever seen, dating back 13 billion years to just 730 million years after the Big Bang, has ...

The telescope captured near-infrared light from one of the earliest stars seen to explode in the history of the universe.

A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be found orbiting up to 50 ...

The JetBlue flight was headed from Cancun to Newark on Oct. 30, when it fell out of the sky for no apparent reason in a ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope discovers the oldest supernova ever seen, offering insights into early universe star formation ...

New findings have revealed that a supernova struck Earth 10 million years ago, and the evidence lies at the bottom of the sea. An unexpected deep-sea deposit ...

A stronomers using the JWST have traced the source of a long-duration gamma-ray burst back to a supernova that exploded ...