Articles by

Rebecca Boyle

The Milky Way’s Stars Reveal Its Turbulent Past

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Late in the evening of October 5, 1923,...

No, the James Webb Space Telescope Hasn’t Broken Cosmology

The cracks in cosmology were supposed to take a while to appear. But when the James Webb...

Astronomers Radically Reimagine the Making of the Planets

Start at the center, with the sun. Our middle-aged star may be more placid than most, but...