Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new imagery of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. It is 11,000 light-years away in ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, captured the moment a massive star exploded, observing the blast just as it burst through the star's surface. The discovery, made with the European Southern ...

A research team in Japan has created a groundbreaking Milky Way simulation that follows more than 100 billion stars with a level of detail that was once thought impossible.

For the first time, astronomers unveiled the shape of a supernova at its earliest stage.

NASA just released a new image from its Webb Space Telescope of renowned supernova SN 1987A, located 168,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It was first discovered in February 1987, ...

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, B. Frye (University of Arizona), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), S. Cohen (Arizona State University), J. D’Silva (University of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. For the first time, astronomers have taken a high-quality, zoomed-in photo of a star outside our ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy LEDA 22057, which is located about 650 ...

When a star unleashes as much energy in a matter of days as our Sun does in several billion years, you know it’s not going to remain visible for long. Like intergalactic paparazzi, NASA’s Hubble Space ...

Astronomers first detected the supernova, dubbed SN2025pht, on June 29 this year. Its light had travelled from a nearby galaxy called NGC 1637, located 40 million light-years away from Earth. By ...

Through a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, three different moments in a far-off supernova explosion were captured in a single snapshot by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The light from the ...