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

NASA has detected a precursor or progenitor to a supernova for the first time – and it's all thanks to old photos. Researchers have now been able to study some of a supernova's progression by ...

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.

One of the largest known stars in the universe underwent a dramatic transformation in 2014, new research shows, and may be preparing to explode. A study led by Gonzalo Muñoz-Sanchez at the National ...

The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s ...

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

A mysterious cosmic explosion linked to gravitational waves may reveal a previously unknown type of supernova event - a ...

The light from the explosion did not reach Earth till June 29, 2025, when the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae detected it.

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.

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

One of the largest known stars in the universe underwent a dramatic transformation in 2014, new research shows, and may be preparing to explode. At such a critical moment in US history, we need ...