The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful eye we’ve ever had in space, is showing us things we’ve never seen before. But like many big projects, it’s dealing with money problems that might slow down its work. Think of finding a completely new type of planet – that’s exactly what the Webb telescope did. It spotted a planet called GJ 1214 b, which sits 48 light-years from Earth. Imagine a world that’s bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, with an atmosphere containing water and methane. “We’ve never seen a planet quite like this in our solar system,” says … Continue reading James Webb Telescope Finds Water-Rich Exoplanet Amid Budget Cuts