This supernova is one for the record books. A mammoth star explosion known as SN2016aps, which occurred in a galaxy about 3.6 billion light-years from Earth, is the brightest supernova ever seen, a ...

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 ...

James Webb has spotted the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding just 730 million years after the Big Bang, offering ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught what appears to be the earliest supernova humanity has ever seen, a stellar death flash from a time when the universe itself was still in its cosmic childhood ...

Astronomers have been waiting patiently for months for light from a distant explosion to reach Earth, and the wait might finally pay off, according to NASA. Scientists alerted the public last year ...

LONDON – A group of researchers claim they’ve found the most distant explosion ever detected, a pulse of high energy radiation sent by a disintegrating star near the very edge of the observable ...

According to new findings published in Nature Astronomy, a new type of star explosion offers a new approach to exploring the distant Universe. Lancaster University researchers collaborated with a ...