"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...

Webb's telescope captures the oldest supernova ever detected, revealing secrets about the early universe’s stars.

Two disasters defined Soviet space tragedy. The N1 rocket created history's largest non-nuclear explosion while the Nedelin ...

Data collected using multiple NSF NOIRLab facilities reveal a gamma-ray burst that lasted more than seven hours and ...

Yu-Jing Qin, a postdoctoral researcher at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), led a series of spectroscopic ...

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

Astronomers used major telescopes across the world to probe a cosmic explosion 8 billion light-years from the solar system.

BASED on findings published in Astronomy & Astrophysics in December and further reported by Keith Cooper for Space.com, ...

There is profound transformation coming over the next decades. It will unlock the equivalent of a century of change every ...

A distant gamma-ray burst has led astronomers to a rare supernova from the Universe’s early years, revealed by JWST. But why ...

The space agency said supernovas typically brighten rapidly over a period of several weeks before they slowly start to dim. This example, however, took months to ...

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