This Planet Would Smell Like Rotten Eggs and Bleed Lava
JWST detected sulfur dioxide on a planet 35 light-years away. Its surface is a magma ocean. It smells like rotten eggs across the void.
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87 Ghost Rivers Are Flowing Through the Milky Way
87 streams of stars torn from ancient galaxies thread through the Milky Way. They are fossil rivers — evidence of collisions billions of years old.
Four People Just Broke the Apollo Distance Record Today
Artemis II breaks Apollo 13's distance record and captures a solar eclipse from lunar orbit. Every milestone from the April 2026 mission.
A Third Galaxy Without Dark Matter Shouldn't Be Possible
A third galaxy has been confirmed with almost no dark matter. NGC 1052-DF9 challenges everything we thought we knew about galaxy formation.
For the First Time, We Can See Planets Being Born Edge-On
JWST captured the first edge-on view of protoplanetary discs — planet-forming rings of gas and dust seen from the side for the first time.
Farthest Galaxy MoM-z14: JWST's Record at Redshift 14.4
MoM-z14 formed 290 million years after the Big Bang. JWST found it at redshift 14.4 — the farthest object ever observed by humanity.
We Are Living Through the Greatest Space Era Since Apollo
JWST, Artemis, private spaceflight — we are living through a space renaissance. This is what it feels like to be alive at the turning point.
A New Telescope Will Find 100,000 Planets We Didn't Know Existed
NASA's Roman Space Telescope will find 100,000 exoplanets using gravitational microlensing. A census of worlds we never knew existed.
The Sun Has Been Warning Us for Decades — We Finally Listened
Parker Solar Probe flew through the Sun's corona. What it found changes our understanding of space weather and the solar wind.