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Betty Webb was bored—“terribly bored,” as she later put it. It was the Blitz. Germany was dropping bombs on London, and she ...

She was part of a code-breaking operation, and spent the last decades of her life talking—and learning more—about her ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...

Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever. But new observations from the James Webb ...

The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, mission to make infrared observations. This was the ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows thousands of glittering galaxies that it spied by peering through ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

One of the great mysteries that humanity has been pursuing since time immemorial is whether there is life beyond our planetary frontier. Many people are tirelessly investigating th ...

A distant planet's atmosphere shows signs of molecules that on Earth are associated only with biological activity, a possible signal of life on what is suspected to be a watery world, according to a ...