This newly discovered explosion from the dawn of time is helping scientists map the chemical evolution of the first galaxies.

"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...

Artist's impression of a supernova. By ESO/M. Kornmesser/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY My hypothesis is that remnants of a supernova – an exploding star – had an impact on the Earth’s past climate, causing ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has picked up the light from a massive star that exploded about a billion years after the ...

It's the last clearly observed supernova in the Milky Way, Gassel said.

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event was first signaled by a gamma-ray burst and later confirmed ...

A rare supernova let scientists glimpse a star's interior, revealing a dense silicon-sulphur shell and unexpected helium that should have vanished earlier. (Nanowerk News) An exploding star has given ...