SNR 0519 is a supernova remnant (SNR) made up of thin, blood-red shells of gas. It is the remnant of a star that exploded as a supernova about 600 years ago. This image, shows Supernova 1987a (center) ...

Young supernovas could have spread water out into the cosmos, causing planet formations earlier than originally thought.

JWST revealed a massive star that ended its life in an explosion when the universe was just a cosmic toddler.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning images of these cosmic explosions, and we’re counting down the top 10 ...

Supernovae are one of the most useful events in all of astronomy. Scientists can directly measure their power, their spin, ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

A light echo is created when a star explodes or erupts, flashing light into surrounding clumps of dust and causing them to shine in an ever-expanding pattern.

There is a lot of complicated but beautiful physics in understanding how this explosion takes place,” says Purdue University ...

Astronomers, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), have identified AT 2023adsv, one of the oldest recorded supernovas.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the infrared glow of an ancient supernova's light echo, revealing ...

A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray ... a small galaxy 160,000 light-years from Earth," ...

A supernova literally means explosion of a star in space.