The Pillars of Creation Are Already Gone
The Pillars of Creation may already be gone. Explore JWST/Hubble views, supernova evidence, and the light-travel paradox in this immersive deep dive.
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TOI-5205 b: The Planet Science Cannot Explain
Image: Katherine Cain / Carnegie Institution for Science Picture the system to scale. The host star, TOI-5205, has a radius just 39 percent of the Sun’s:...
Carbon in the Atmosphere of a Super-Jupiter Rewrites the Planet Formation Story
JWST directly imaged CO₂ in a super-Jupiter 133 light-years away. Its carbon ratio reveals how it formed — and blurs the line between planet and...
Some Planets Don't Orbit a Star — They Drift Between Them
Trillions of planets drift between stars with no sun, no orbit, no seasons. JWST found hundreds in the Orion Nebula. Some may harbor life.
We've Found Six Thousand Worlds We Never Knew About
From pulsars to hot Jupiters to Earth-sized worlds in habitable zones — how we discovered 6,000+ exoplanets and what their atmospheres reveal.
The Universe Is Expanding at Two Different Speeds — And Both Are Right
Image: ESA and the Planck Collaboration Two teams of physicists have spent more than a decade measuring the same number. They are using the best...
James Webb Is Sniffing the Atmospheres of Worlds We'll Never Reach
Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, J. Olmsted (STScI) The James Webb Space Telescope was not designed to find life. It was designed to see light, specifically...
The Sun Will Die — Here's the Exact Timeline
Image: ESO/S. Steinhöfel Somewhere around five billion years from now, the Sun will run out of hydrogen fuel in its core and begin to die....
A Planet Is Being Born Right Now — And We're Watching It Happen
JWST captures a protoplanet forming in real time inside a young star's disc. We are watching planetary birth as it happens.