The Kepler and James Webb space telescopes are on the chopping block, budget-wise. Probably only because too few people are aware of how much they’ve done for the human understanding of the universe we live in.
A new planet’s been discovered. Creatively named Kepler-22b, read on to find out how something like this gets even gets named and what it means for human civilization. Or… something.
A discussion of the new classification system for exoplanets discovered throughout the galaxy. Scientists now differentiate between Earth-like worlds and those unlike Earth that may still have the conditions for life to exist. Pretty neat really.
