NASA has detected a precursor or progenitor to a supernova for the first time – and it's all thanks to old photos.

A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to discover a former star that ...

That the universe is expanding has been known for almost a hundred years now, but how fast? The exact rate of that expansion ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the first published detection of a supernova progenitor in galaxy NGC 1637, revealing a red supergiant star before explosion.

A rare gravitationally lensed supernova called SN 2025wny appears in five separate images due to the gravity of two ...

Discover how the giant star WOH G64, one of the largest known, transformed in 2014 and might be heading for a supernova.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured some bizarre imagery of an exploding star that, for some reason, kept repeating itself. In a press release, NASA said that new Webb images of what ...

In A Nutshell A massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy faded by more than 10,000 times over a decade and vanished from view, ...

Astronomers have observed what they are calling a new type of supernova, which has provided an unparalleled glimpse into what happens deep within a star just before it explodes. A study detailing the ...

Astronomers report a supergiant star in the Andromeda Galaxy, M31-2014-DS1, collapsed directly into a black hole without a supernova, confirming predictions of failed stellar explosions.

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...