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

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

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

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

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

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

Columbia Professor Brian Metzger helped other astronomers interpret their observations of the unexpected stellar event.

An international team of astronomers has, for the first time, successfully probed the early universe. An international group of astronomers has reached a new milestone in studying the early universe.

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my ...

Astronomers report a strange cosmic blast that looked like a kilonova, then behaved like a supernova, hinting at a possible first “superkilonova” and leaving scientists debating how stars truly die.

A puzzling cosmic blast detected in both light and gravitational waves may hint at a previously unseen type of explosion, ...

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