These distant worlds are called exoplanets: planets that exist outside our solar system. Most of the exoplanets scientists have discovered so far orbit stars within the Milky Way, but some lie even ...

When the JWST finally began its long-awaited science operations in July 2022, there was a long list of targets awaiting its ...

Science advances through data that don't fit our current understanding. At least that was Thomas Kuhn's theory in his famous ...

"We have discovered a galaxy that has been 'perfectly preserved' for billions of years, a true archaeological find that tells us how the first galaxies were born and helps us understand how the ...

If you were able to land on Uranus, which you can’t because it is made of gas, you would be greeted with something that ...

Interest in steam world exoplanets really heated up in October 2024 when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered the exoplanet GJ 9827 d, twice the size of Earth and located around 100 ...