SciShow Space News shares the latest developments from around the universe, including the discovery of water vapor on a new “exo-Neptune,” and cyanide found in the clouds where stars are born.

Hank regales us with the history of the telescope, and then introduces us to some folks from the team who are working on the newest telescope in the chronology - the James Webb Space Telescope, an infrared telescope due to launch in 2018.

Ice is ice, right? Wrong! From the vacuum of deep space to the inside of ice giant planets, ice gets stretched and squished into way more forms than what we find here on Earth.

TESS found 3 new exoplanets around a strangely calm m-dwarf star, and it's possible they could be habitable!

Earth’s northern and southern lights are some of the most magical sights on our planet. But they’re not unique to Earth, and aside from being beautiful, auroras can also give us unusual insights into these other worlds.

For the first time, astronomers have detected the light coming from an exoplanet. SciShow Space News explains how they did it, and why it was so difficult in the first place.

Exoplanets have taught us a lot more about planets than our solar system could ever teach us, from what happens when they’re born, to what happens when their stars die.

With exoplanets, often we want to know if they are Earth-like and whether they might host life, but we can also learn a lot from planets that are nothing like Earth.

Exoplanet TOI 1227 b is being bombarded by x-rays from its host red dwarf star, causing it to “shrink from the size of Jupiter with a thick atmosphere to a small, barren world,” according to the NASA Chandra team.



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Data from the James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet K2-18b has revealed the "strongest hints yet of biological activity outside the solar system," according to a University of Cambridge study. Credit: Space.com | animations:...

Exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b’s is an unusual polar orbit of a pair of brown dwarfs. Credit: ESO Directed by: Angelos Tsaousis and Martin Wallner. Editing: Angelos Tsaousis. Web and technical support: Raquel Yumi Shida and Edison Arango....

The CRIRES+ instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has been used to measure the supersonic jet winds on gas giant exoplanet WASP-127b. <b<br/>r/>

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The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable planets. Future observatories will use the data to narrow down the list for possible Earth-like planets to image....

An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard's stars is the closest single star to Earth.<b<br/>r/>

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The Hubble Space Telescope has made multiple observations of exoplanet WASP-121 b, also known as Tylos. The extreme temperature changes the massive 'hot Jupiter'-type planet may make it rain iron at night.



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The transforming exoplanet that was observed by the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak National Observatory has a strangely elongated orbit.


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Breakthrough Starshot is a future space mission that plans to send tiny, laser-powered probes to another star system, aiming to reach Proxima b, a potentially Earth-like planet. These spacecraft will travel at 20% the speed of light...

Why Earth 2.0 may not be such a feasible place for people to live.

40 Jupiter Mass Binary Objects - or JuMBOs - discovered by JWST.

Shot 7 times, yet the Harlan J Smith telescope at the McDonald Observatory still had 99% functionality. How?!

It seems counterintuitive, but ESA's newest space telescope, CHEOPS, is designed to take blurry images of stars. But this helps astronomers to understand more about orbiting exoplanets than a clear image would. Here's why!

What makes a planet a planet? And what makes a star a star? Once we know this these defining characteristics, we start to notice that these definitions can overlap. Which begs the question, can a planet be bigger than its parent star?

Astrum investigates some examples of the longest and shortest years that we know of. The differences are mind-boggling!

What makes a planet a planet? And what makes a star a star? Once we know this these defining characteristics, we start to notice that these definitions can overlap. Which begs the question, can a planet be bigger than its parent star?