A few years back, in the fictional town of Patience, Colorado, an extraterrestrial visitor made landfall on our planet. The title character of SYFY's Resident Alien (streaming now on Peacock!) takes ...

An image that went viral in August 2023 genuinely depicted a "question mark" formation in space. The viral photograph was a zoomed-in, cropped version of an image taken by a special camera on NASA's ...

Late last month NASA and ESA released a swirling infrared vista capturing an evolutionary snapshot of the formation of two nascent stars, known collectively as Herbig-Haro 46/47. As reported by Space ...

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When looking for answers in the cosmos, sometimes more questions appear. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The James Webb Space ...

The object is far outside our galactic neighborhood, possibly billions of light-years away. But astronomers have seen similar objects closer to home. This glowing red question mark was captured in the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope recently captured a stunning new image of what scientists call a pair of actively forming stars. But eagle-eyed viewers were quick to seize on an even tinier — and to ...

A cosmic object in the shape of a glowing question mark has photobombed one of the latest images captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope — and scientists think they know what it might be. The ...

The viral photograph was a zoomed-in, cropped version of an image taken by a special camera on NASA's Webb Space Telescope. That image was a composite of multiple exposures. The viral photograph was ...