
Every planet ever confirmed outside our solar system was found one at a time. The NASA Roman Space Telescope is about to change that — discovering an estimated 100,000 exoplanets in a single mission, rewriting the map of the galaxy, and answering questions about dark energy that have stumped physics for decades. Read more

Somewhere in the galaxy, a planet is orbiting its star backwards. Another is being slowly eaten alive, pulled apart in real time. A third formed inside a pulsar’s radiation field — a place where nothing should survive. These are not theories. They are confirmed worlds that broke every rule planetary science thought it had. Read more