Two roads diverge between a pair of quasars, and I’m sorry I can’t travel both — actually, wait, I can travel both....
Life as we know it is based on carbon chemistry, and now the James Webb Space Telescope may have shown where much...
The spaces between stars in our galaxy are enigmatic realms filled with vast, diffuse clouds of gas and dust. These clouds tend...
Comparison of two mid-infrared images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. At center is Wolf-Rayet 140, two massive stars in elongated...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is known for looking deep into the universe with an unprecedented level precision and sensitivity. But its...
Astronomers may have “saved cosmology” by gathering the largest sample yet of some of the most ancient galaxies ever seen, the so-called...
This shimmering cosmic curtain shows interstellar gas and dust that has been heated by the flashbulb explosion of a long-ago supernova. The...