Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...
On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...
"This is a structure we've never seen before, so it could be a new class of dark object." ...
Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...
Astronomers find galaxy Y1, a young star-forming region, revealing extreme heat just 600 million years after the Big Bang.
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope and gravitational lensing to observe SN Eos, an ordinary supernova from the ...
A recent study provides answers to three seemingly disparate yet pressing cosmic dawn puzzles. Specifically, the authors show ...
Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA Chris Impey, University of Arizona If you look across ...
In the season 2 episode "Mirror, Mirror," Star Trek perfected the alternate universe trope long before Hollywood's multiverse ...
Viewers without any Star Trek expertise can enjoy the new adventures out of context. But there are echoes and Easter eggs ...