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.
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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.
A Second Space Race Has Quietly Begun — And It's Not US vs. Russia
India is building its own crewed spacecraft. Gaganyaan will make ISRO the fourth agency to launch humans — a new space age begins.
Perseverance Found Something on Mars That Might Be a Fossil
Perseverance found organic molecules in Jezero Crater. Mars has been keeping secrets — and we are finally close enough to read them.
These Are the First Human Photos of the Far Side of the Moon
The first photographs taken by human hands from the far side of the Moon. Artemis II crew shares what no camera has captured before.
391 Black Hole Collisions Found — And One Is Moving the Wrong Way
LIGO's new catalog doubled gravitational-wave detections. Among them: the first black hole–neutron star merger on an elliptical orbit.