Scientists say the question-mark-shaped structure seen in a new photo from the James Webb Space Telescope is likely the merger of two or more galaxies.

NASA just found a question mark in space. What exactly is it? The object is far outside our galactic neighborhood, possibly billions of light-years away. But astronomers have seen similar objects ...

Scientists say the question-mark-shaped structure seen in a new photo from the James Webb Space Telescope is likely the merger of two or more galaxies.

That question mark, our profound cosmic ignorance, is one of the great gifts of science. Dennis Overbye joined The Times in 1998, and has been a reporter since 2001.

So, the curved shape that made the question mark could be a tidal tail. The image taken by the telescope, released last month, shows Herbig-Haro 46/47, which is a star forming cloud, Caplan explained.

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 ...

So what in the cosmos formed the apparent punctuation mark in space? A recent image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope shows what appears to be a “question mark” in deep space.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a giant cosmic question mark in space that has baffled scientists.