When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t expecting to find one of the universe’s strangest chemical ...

JWST might have spotted the 'smoking gun' of a hypothetical object called a dark star in the distant Universe. If confirmed, this discovery could solve several mysteries of physics. A dark star may ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion-powered suns, but enormous “supermassive dark stars” powered by dark ...

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Next-generation telescopes like JWST and the 30-meter telescope increase the likelihood of detecting extraterrestrial life within our lifetime. Trump Cuts Millions After California Ignores English ...

Humanity's understanding of the solar system has evolved dramatically following the advent of spaceflight. Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ...

Astronomers have yet to find irrefutable proof for any natural satellites of exoplanets—so-called exomoons—but as circumstantial evidence accumulates and the list of candidates grows, the discovery of ...

After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 billion (AU$15 billion) James Webb Space Telescope. There had not been such a ...

Observations from the JWST indicate that K2-18b, a planet about 2.6 times the radius of Earth orbiting a red dwarf star 124 light-years away, contains gases like dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and dimethyl ...

Benjamin Pope receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Big Questions Institute. After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

A consensus is emerging that the dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of object in the Universe. When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) looked back in time to observe the ...