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 ...

Forty million years ago, a star in a nearby galaxy exploded, spewing material across space and generating a brilliant beacon of light. That light traveled across the cosmos, reaching Earth June 29, ...

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.

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

The big picture: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently managed to capture imagery of the oldest and farthest known supernova explosion – an event that occurred when the universe was just 730 ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has identified the earliest known supernova, which exploded when the universe was approximately 730 million years old. The supernova, designated GRB 250314A, was ...

An image from NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory shows a glowing hand stretching across the cosmos with its palm and fingers sculpted from the wreckage of a massive stellar explosion. When you purchase ...

(Phys.org) —These delicate wisps of gas make up an object known as SNR B0519-69.0, or SNR 0519 for short. The thin, blood-red shells are actually the remnants from when an unstable progenitor star ...

Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have for the first time identified the progenitor of a nearby supernova -- a red supergiant star cloaked in thick, dust-rich shrouds that ...

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified the progenitor star of supernova 2025pht, a stellar explosion that occurred ...

This WISE image shows dust speckling the Andromeda galaxy's spiral arms. The hot dust, heated by newborn stars, outlines the thin arms to the center of the galaxy. This dense cluster of galaxies, ...