Articles by

Lisa Grossman

The James Webb telescope spotted the earliest known ‘quenched’ galaxy

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the earliest known galaxy to abruptly stop forming stars. The...

The Kuiper Belt’s dwarf planet Quaoar hosts an impossible ring

The dwarf planet Quaoar has a ring that is too big for its metaphorical fingers. While all...

New data show how quickly light pollution is obscuring the night sky

The night sky has been brightening faster than researchers realized, thanks to the use of artificial lights...

Enceladus is blanketed in a thick layer of snow

Saturn’s moon Enceladus is shrouded in a thick layer of snow. In some places, the downy stuff...

The James Webb telescope found ‘Green Pea’ galaxies in the early universe

Galaxies that helped transform the early universe may have been small, round and green. Astronomers using the...