Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 ...
In 1925, grad student Cecilia Payne first proposed that stars were mostly made of hydrogen and helium and shaped our ...
"In these environments of neutron stars, the magnetic fields are really at the limits of what the universe can produce." ...
The revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope and next-gen radio telescopes are probing what’s known as the epoch of reionization. It holds clues to the first stars and galaxies, and perhaps the nature ...
one colossus reigns supreme as the largest star in the universe. Situated thousands of light-years from Earth, this celestial giant's sheer magnitude challenges our understanding of stellar physics.
Scientists have discovered an exciting new way to uncover how stars are formed by studying their spectacular deaths. Using ...
There's a cosmic 'Christmas Wreath' hanging in the Small Magellanic Cloud, the James Webb and Chandra telescopes revealed in ...
According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent ...
Gary Graham embarked on his journey through strange new worlds in November 1995, when he played the Ocampan leader Tanis in ...