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The Three-Body Problem Explained: Why Astronomy's Simplest Question Has No Answer
Newton solved the motion of two gravitating bodies in 1687. Add a third and the problem becomes mathematically intractable, technically chaotic, and unexpectedly beautiful. Here is why the simplest question in celestial mechanics has no closed-form answer.
Science & SpaceThe Habitable Worlds Observatory: NASA's $11 Billion Telescope to Find Alien Life
NASA has quietly committed to the most ambitious astronomy mission ever attempted: a six-metre space telescope that will image Earth-like planets directly and sniff their atmospheres for signs of life. It will not launch for fifteen years. The hard part has already begun.
Science & SpaceJames Webb Space Telescope's Biggest Discoveries of 2026
From a possible biosignature in K2-18b's air to a galaxy that should not exist 290 million years after the Big Bang, JWST has spent the past year breaking models faster than theorists can patch them. Here is what it actually found.
Science & SpaceThe James Webb Space Telescope: What It Has Discovered and Why It Matters
Since its first images in July 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has rewritten our understanding of the early universe, exoplanet atmospheres, and star formation. Here is a systematic account of its most significant findings.