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Artist's rendering of a dark, barren rocky exoplanet with one molten dayside facing a small red dwarf star

Cosmology · Exoplanets · Astrobiology

The First Exoplanet Whose Surface We Have Actually Seen

For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope has read the bare rock of a world 48.5 light-years away. LHS 3844 b is a dark, hot, airless slab of basalt, and what it tells us about life is written in what is missing.

June 2, 2026 14 min read Nature Astronomy · Max Planck Institute for Astronomy · NASA

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Saturn photographed by the Cassini spacecraft, its banded golden atmosphere and rings casting shadows across the northern hemisphere

No. 02

Astrophysics · Planetary Science · Saturn

Saturn Kept Changing Its Day, and the Planet Was Never the Culprit

June 1, 202615 min read

Cassini image of Saturn's moon Mimas showing the Herschel impact crater that dominates one hemisphere, masking the recently confirmed subsurface ocean

No. 03

Astrophysics · Planetary Science · Icy Moons

The Death Star Moon Was Hiding an Ocean. Nobody Saw It Coming.

May 30, 202614 min read

Artist's reconstruction of a deep-sea hydrothermal vent system on the early Earth, similar to where LUCA may have originated

No. 04

Cosmology · Astrobiology · Origin of Life

Every Living Thing on Earth Descended From One Cell. We Now Know Roughly Where It Lived.

May 29, 202615 min read

All-sky map of the cosmic microwave background from the Planck satellite, the basis of one of two conflicting measurements of the Hubble constant

No. 05

Cosmology · Hubble Constant · ΛCDM

The Universe Is Expanding at Two Different Speeds, and Cosmology Cannot Reconcile Them

May 28, 202614 min read

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Cosmology

The origin, structure, and ultimate fate of the universe.

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Stars, black holes, neutron stars, and the physics governing them.

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Exoplanets

Worlds beyond our solar system and the search for life.

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