The Perseid meteor shower will peak this year in the early hours of 13 August. A…
Category: New Scientist
New Scientist – Space
JWST has caught two galaxies smashing together and sparking starbursts
Two glittering galaxies 275 million light years away smash together and spur star formation in an…
Why general relativity is known as a background independent theory
Space-time isn’t expanding into anything because general relativity is what we call a background independent theory.…
JWST captures the most distant star ever seen in incredible detail
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to take the most detailed image yet of…
JWST has released a striking new image of the strange Cartwheel galaxy
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken a picture of the Cartwheel galaxy, which got its…
Gamma ray bursts could help unravel how fast the universe is expanding
It may be possible to use the brightest events in the universe, gamma ray bursts, to…
JWST has spotted a weird, distant galaxy with almost no heavy elements
Galaxies in the distant universe are expected to have fewer heavy elements than nearby ones, but…
JWST could soon tell us what exoplanets' surfaces are made of
Observing the surface of an exoplanet is tricky, but a study analysing data from the Spitzer…
JWST keeps breaking its own record for the most distant galaxy ever
The James Webb Space Telescope has begun peering into the early universe, spotting more and more…
Mysterious light may come from the largest molecules found in space
The wavelengths of light emitted by large molecules called fullerene-metal complexes in the lab match up…