Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made a rare and groundbreaking discovery. For the first time, ...

When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were ...

Stars often end their lives with a dazzling explosion, creating and releasing material into the universe. This will then seed new life, leading to a cosmic cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

By combining Webb’s infrared data with older Hubble Space Telescope images, scientists traced the explosion, known as ...

The first double-burst supernova ever observed, SNR 0509, is a historic discovery that reveals how white dwarfs explode in ...

Scientists trying to work out whether a star exploded and the resulting debris crashed into Earth 10 million years ago may be one step closer to solving the mystery. They discovered an unusual amount ...