Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" ...

But the state-of-the-art space observatory has recently imaged two grand design spiral galaxies, and one appears to be the ...

It has been just over three years since JWST was launched into space and in that time, the telescope has dramatically ...

Astronomers, including those from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), discovered a new galaxy in the Leo ...

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

Astronomers used JWST and gravitational lensing to spot 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years away.

Scientists recently discovered that the giant 'conveyer belt' currents that push star-forged material out of our galaxy and pull it back in can also transport carbon atoms. That means that a good deal ...

Galaxies are not islands in the cosmos. While globally the universe expands—driven by the mysterious "dark energy"—locally, ...