The wait is almost over โ the Premier League's new season opens in just five days on August 22. Clubs have been reshaped by a busy transfer window and returning World Cup stars all summer long. Every table looks different heading into the opener. Who do you think lifts the trophy come May?
Spain claimed its second World Cup title on July 19, beating Argentina 1-0 at MetLife Stadium after Ferran Torres scored in the 105th minute. Argentina finished with 10 men after Enzo Fernandez's red card, and Emiliano Martinez made a record 11 saves. Was this the best World Cup final in years?
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was studying the already-known planet Beta Pictoris b when a second hidden world revealed itself in the same data. The new planet โ Beta Pictoris d โ orbits 63 light-years away inside a thick debris disk that blocked conventional detection for over a decade, and is at least twice Jupiter's mass; it was only detectable through atmospheric traces of carbon monoxide, water vapor, and methane. This chemical-fingerprint technique could unlock thousands of planets that direct imaging can't reach. How many other worlds might be hiding inside dust clouds we already study?