James Webb Space Telescope observes 72 stars and finds planet formation is a race against time

(Main) An illustration of a protoplanetary disk; (inset) an artist’s rendition of the James Webb Space Telescope. (Image credit: ESA/NASA, the AVO project and Paolo Padovani) Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have studied 72 young, sun-like stars. As a result, they found that forming planets is a real race against time. ThisContinue Reading

Astronaut Jonny Kim leaves NASA, will return to active military duty

Former NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Jonny Kim services an experimental carbon dioxide removal device aboard the International Space Station in May 2025. (Image credit: NASA/JSC) Jonny Kim is leaving NASA to continue his military career. The 42-year-old astronaut, who has one of the most jaw-dropping resumes of any person alive, is departingContinue Reading

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The devastating Bhotekoshi flood struck the mountainous Nepal-Tibet border region on Wednesday morning., At least 469 people have died, and at least 1,500 people remain missing across Nepal and China’s Tibet region after a glacial collapse sent a mountain of mud and rock into a Himalayan river, triggering catastrophic floodingContinue Reading

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If you’ve installed Chromium or Google Chrome as a Flatpak, you’ve installed an unofficial, community-maintained package done independently of the search giant – that could be about to change. Chromium’s build system is now able to generate Flatpak packages of the browser itself, though its developers caution that the changeContinue Reading