Webb recorded a 50-light-year-wide swath of the Milky Way’s center, shining with half a million stars.
Thermoelectric generators probably won’t eliminate the charger for your Apple Watch, but for smaller, screenless wearables, the heat constantly escaping from your skin could fundamentally change how we power our devices.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope found definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the Milky Way just 2 billion years after the Big Bang.
For 50 years, astronomers have been searching for evidence of winds emanating from the black hole Sagittarius A*. Now, they finally think they have an answer.
The object appears to be older than our solar system itself.
A recent paper reveals we're almost certainly going to collide with a galaxy in the next couple billion years, but it's not the one we thought.
Using multiple wavelengths and some atmospheric jiu-jitsu, astronomers are changing how we see the universe.