James webb space telescope breakthroughs

Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope have likened this object to an ice cream sundae. Others examining it with the now-defunct Spitzer Space Telescope dubbed it the cosmic tornado. T

New data suggests that dark energy’s pulling power is changing Dark energy’s pull could be weakening over time, according to new results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaborat

The problems started with six little red dots. Six small fuzzy spots, among thousands of others, were enough to suddenly bring everything into question. The dots appeared in images captured by the Jam

On 23 July 1999, Space Shuttle Columbia launched its heaviest-ever payload: the Chandra X-ray Observatory, a new flagship telescope for NASA. It is the world’s most powerful X-ray telescope, capable o

Two contrasting visions of humanity’s future in space

Galaxies come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. They can be broadly classified as spiral, elliptical or irregular, but each of these still leaves plenty of scope for variety. Take, for instance, the s