Last August Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt noticed something strange while he was looking at a flight map on his phone. As his eye traced the plane’s flight path, he noticed that the line looked purple, ...

They’re struggling to connect the dots. Scientists are baffled over mysterious dots captured by the James Webb Space Telescope — with some suggesting they could be giant stars from the origins of the ...

Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the most powerful space telescope ever made. Astronomers now call them little red ...