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The carbon atoms in your body have likely traveled much farther than you have, possibly hundreds of thousands of light-years ...

The Sun, the planets, and all else that constitutes the solar system are hurtling toward the star Lambda Herculis, some 370 ...

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and ...

The technology that would allow humans to leave the Milky Way is barely imaginable, but it seems the carbon and oxygen that ...

The revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope and next-gen radio telescopes are probing what’s known as the epoch of ...

A year of discovery awaits, with missions poised to reveal new insights about our home planet, solar system, galaxy, and ...

The carbon in your body traveled 400,000 light-years through space, riding galactic currents in the circumgalactic medium, ...

According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent ...

Carbon, essential for life, journeys through space in a galactic recycling process, fueling star and planet formation.

Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without stars. Nearly all elements except ...

Astronomer Carl Sagan famously said, “We are made of star stuff,” and new research brings a deeper understanding to this ...