NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just delivered one of its most stunning pics yet—and it was actually one of the first objects the spacecraft spotted when it went into orbit in 2022. In June 2022, ...

NASA's Webb Space Telescope has captured the rare and brief phase of a star in the constellation Sagittarius right before dying and going supernova. The image, released Tuesday at the South by ...

NASA announced that a nearby star has exploded, and telescopes worldwide will be turning in its direction to witness the celestial display. And if you want to check it out for yourself, you’re in luck ...

Aug. 31 (UPI) --NASA has released a new image of a supernova that is located 168,000 light years away from Earth using the James Webb Space Telescope and has discovered previously undetected ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope watched a distant star die, explode, and fade away in rare detail. The star died more than 11 billion years ago, when the universe was less than a fifth of its current ...

It happened 15,000 years ago, but the light is only now just reaching Earth — courtesy of NASA’s James Webb telescope. The scope caught images of a star in the rarely-sighted Wolf-Rayet phase, on the ...

When a star runs out of fuel and starts to cool, the pressure outside the star falls. When the pressure in a massive star drops sufficiently, gravity takes control and the star collides in a matter of ...

The Hubble Telescope has captured a true blast from the past, spotting the colossal explosion of a star from over 11 billion years ago in the first detailed look of a supernova so early in the ...

Over the last few decades, we've gotten much better at observing supernovae as they're happening. Orbiting telescopes can now pick up the high-energy photons emitted and figure out their source, ...