Articles by

Adam Mann

In a first, the Webb telescope found a planet by actually ‘seeing’ it

For the first time ever, the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet by directly...

Life’s ingredients have been found in samples from asteroid Bennu

Underground pools of liquid brine probably formed 4.6 billion years ago on the parent body of...

How did dark matter shape the universe? This physicist has ideas

At age 12, Tracy Slatyer felt sorry for a book. She read a newspaper article about how...

2 spacecraft caught the waves that might heat and accelerate the solar wind

A lucky alignment of two sun-studying spacecraft may have finally solved a decades-old solar mystery. Data from...

The Webb telescope’s peek into a stellar nursery finds baby planets too

A distant stellar nursery holds a clutch of newborn Jupiter-sized worlds, the tiniest of which is...