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

Supernovae aren't one of the JWST's main science themes, but the perceptive telescope is full of surprises. Recently, it ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope discovers the oldest supernova ever seen, offering insights into early universe star formation ...

A stronomers using the JWST have traced the source of a long-duration gamma-ray burst back to a supernova that exploded ...

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 James Webb Space Telescope and other international observatories have spotted a 13-billion-year-old supernova. On Tuesday ...

Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years ...

A faint, tiny flash of red light glimpsed at the Cosmic Dawn more than 13 billion years ago has smashed the record for the ...

"This observation also demonstrates that we can use Webb to find individual stars when the universe was only 5% of its ...

A faint flash from the cosmic dawn has revealed itself as the oldest supernova ever confirmed, its light having traveled 13 billion years to reach Earth. The James Webb Space Telescope captured the ...

A faint, ancient flash of light detected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has broken the record for the most distant ...

NASA’s Webb Telescope detects the earliest known supernova, GRB 250314A, 730 million years after the Big Bang, capturing its host galaxy and providing unprecedented early-universe observations.