The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a rare glimpse at the gaseous "shrouds" that surround dying stars before they go ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), operated by NASA, has uncovered intriguing new details about Charon—Pluto’s largest moon—including the presence of ...

Duncan McCourt, CEO of Sustainable Aviation, points out that when burned, it emits the carbon. That means it’s entirely net zero if a renewable energy plant is used to make it. And unlike with ...

Helgoland, birthplace of quantum theory, where Werner Heisenberg's breakthrough on matrix mechanics revolutionised physics in ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

And drum roll, please: employing the Radio Experiment for the Analysis of Cosmic Hydrogen telescope ... material off a more ordinary star that's orbiting it, producing light in the x-ray spectrum. In ...

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...

There’s a chance we could see a white dwarf star explosion this year. T Coronae Borealis, a binary star system and recurrent nova located roughly 3,000 light-years from Earth, is expected to erupt ...