While seeing the Cartwheel Galaxy in such clear light is impressive, a new video released by the European Space Agency shows just how incredibly far away it actually is.
A particularly powerful bolt of lightning, which darted upwards from a thunderstorm in Oklahoma, delivered the largest charge transfer to space on record.
JWST has peered into deep space again with its infrared gaze and discovered the “stellar gymnastics in The Cartwheel Galaxy”.
A new study has found that dogs’ sense of smell and sense of vision are closely linked in their brains, which means that they can basically “see” with their noses.
The JWST views light in the infrared spectrum – on Earth, we can feel infrared light as heat – which allows the instrument to see far, far more of the universe.
Sifting through the public James Webb Space Telescope datasets, stargazers across the planet have been hard at work.
Two private space companies announced to the world that they’re collaborating on an ambitious joint venture to be the first commercial mission to Mars as soon as 2024.
It turns out that all those lovely golden mirrors on the miraculous James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are quite vulnerable to being damaged by space rocks.
The first image was shown to the world on Monday, but little did we know that NASA would be releasing other amazing photos from the first batch throughout yesterday.
The James Webb Space Telescope shows us a version of the universe that is chock-a-block with galaxies, some ranging back to an unimaginable time.
The doccie has already received Oscar buzz and has been referred to as the “greatest lava story ever told” and “hands down, the documentary of the year”.
She was chanced upon by a gold miner named Travis Mudry, astoundingly preserved over all those years thanks to the muddy permafrost tomb that she lay in.
Jerry Ehman had his ear to the universe on August 15, 1977, working on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence programme, or SETI, when he heard a very interesting signal.
There’s no sweeter relief than waking up shaking and sweating after a gruelling fit of late-night purgatory and realising that it was merely a nightmare.
China’s massive ‘Sky Eye’ FAST telescope, the world’s largest alien-hunting radio telescope, seems to have picked up a strange signal which could suggest that there is indeed life beyond Earth.
A Google engineer named Blake Lemoine is refusing to be silenced, in the wake of his discovery that a Google AI bot is beginning to demonstrate worrying signs of human-like sentience.
Scientists at NASA are curious to see if the second planet from the Sun ever housed any life before, especially considering how similar it is to Earth.
New research is saying that attractive people’s own beauty and self-biases play a role in political decision making, and may lead to some rather ugly results.
The stationary spacecraft captured its last selfie on April 24, showing just how enveloped its solar panels have become by the planet’s relentless dust.
Incredible discoveries made at a unique North Dakota fossil site have been stacking up, including something that NASA described as “mind-blowing”.
The little chopper is supposed to send regular data to its buddy Perseverance but missed one of the scheduled communications sessions last week.
A California space start-up flung a camera-strapped projectile 7 620 metres into the atmosphere at 1 600 kilometres per hour.
This space company planned to retrieve a rocket booster in mid-air with a helicopter for the first time ever, which they successfully managed, somewhat.
The incredible HiRISE camera captured the coolest and most detailed shot of a Mars crater earlier this year.
The results coming out of a London study are yet another example of how psilocybin can have massively beneficial uses.
The International Space Station was designed to support a crew of six, according to NASA, but is now home to 11 astronauts.
From hunter-gatherers in the south-east Asian rainforest to suburban Americans, one smell rules them all.
Apparently, this one of a kind documentary featuring guest star William Shatner will “show the public what’s really happening in our skies with UFOs”.
Scientists are currently working with CRISPR gene-editing technology to make cats simply with little to no sneeze-inducing proteins.
Psychologists and social scientists have pinpointed the markers of what makes a person stereotypically boring.