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If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it’s a JWST image or any other observatory.

To know how to protect its astronauts, NASA needs to first understand the threat.

With hundreds of billions of stars burning bright, some galaxies are already dead. Their inhabitants might not know it, but we’re certain.

The full extent of the Andromeda galaxy, the nearest large galaxy to our own, has been entirely imaged with Hubble’s exquisite cameras.

All stars shine due to an internal source of energy. Usually, it’s nuclear fusion: converting mass into energy. What makes them most bright?

The Universe is precisely dated at 13.8 billion years old, but astronomers claim the Methuselah star is 14.5 billion years old. What gives?

In our Universe, matter is made of particles, while antimatter is made of antiparticles. But sometimes, the physical lines get real blurry.

An inclusion expert explains why women of color are held back.

There are only four super star clusters in all the Local Group: rarities today. Here’s what the youngest, the just-discovered N79, shows us.

While Saturn and its moons all appear faint and cloudy to JWST, Saturn’s rings are the star of the show. Here’s the big scientific reason.

Science writer Matt Ridley joins us to discuss how “Darwin’s strangest idea” makes us all a bit feather-brained (in a good way).

Most of us only ever see a fraction of a full rainbow: an arc. But optically, a full rainbow makes a complete circle. Physics explains why.

While ticker tape synesthesia was first identified in the 1880s, new research looks at this unique phenomenon — and what it means for language comprehension.

James Fadiman PhD, who has 60 years of experience in the field, believes they are.

The observation that everything we know is made out of matter and not antimatter is one of nature’s greatest puzzles. Will we ever solve it?

50 years ago, Herman Chernoff proposed using human faces to represent multidimensional datasets. It was a good idea in theory — but a disaster in practice.

This first-of-its-kind image offers a detailed look at the magnetic fields within the Central Molecular Zone.

Here in our Solar System, we only have one star: a singlet. For many systems, including the highest-mass ones, that’s anything but the norm.

Don’t worry that your dog’s world is visually drab.

9 minutes of cruel history may cure the anti-progress delusion.

Genes are sometimes called the “blueprint of life,” but that doesn’t make them the behavioral playbook.

A proton is the only stable example of a particle composed of three quarks. But inside the proton, gluons, not quarks, dominate.

In general relativity, matter and energy curve spacetime, which we experience as gravity. Why can’t there be an “antigravity” force?

Recent research sheds light on how the brain overgeneralizes fear, causing people to be afraid of harmless situations.

Some nebulae emit their own light, some reflect the light from stars around them, and some only absorb light. But that’s just the beginning.

By probing the Universe on atomic scales and smaller, we can reveal the entirety of the Standard Model, and with it, the quantum Universe.

Cats twist and snakes slide, exploiting and negotiating physical laws. Scientists are figuring out how.

All telescopes are fundamentally limited in what they can see. JWST reveals more distant galaxies than Hubble, but still can’t see them all.

Deep learning AI has accurately created color images from night vision images.

Your brain is trying to show you the future.