An international team of astronomers has carried out photometric and spectroscopic observations of SN 2024abvb—a recently ...

Astronomers used Webb to find the star behind supernova 2025pht, revealing how thick dust can hide massive red supergiants.

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 ...

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.

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

He came up with a new one, called the Late-Transition Interacting Thawer (LTIT) model, which models how dark energy could "thaw" after a certain amount of time after the universe started and is slowly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A supernova called SN 2023ixf has appeared in the outskirts ...