Nature doesn't conform to our ideas of neatly-contained categories. Many things in nature blur the lines we try to draw…
To understand the Universe, we need to understand the extreme processes that shape it and drive its evolution. Things like…
White dwarfs are the ultimate fate of stars like our Sun, and one of the most exciting examples is located…
In July 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) used its NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) to capture stunning infrared images of…
Nature is stingy with its secrets. That's why humans developed the scientific method. Without it, we'd still be ignorant and…
Using spectra obtained by Webb, an international team examined three TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets during a series of flares.
Astronomers using JWST were surprised to find mature-looking galaxies in the early Universe; they challenged existing models of cosmology. Astronomers…
The James Webb Space Telescope is widely considered to be better than the Hubble Space Telescope. But the JWST doesn't…
A new series of simulations from Northwestern shows that those impossibly large galaxies were actually just very, very bright!
As of this month, astronomers have discovered 5,506 exoplanets orbiting other stars. That number is growing daily, and astronomers are…