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Webb Finds Carbon-Rich Atmosphere on Lemon-Shaped Planet Orbiting a Pulsar

Webb’s infrared spectra reveal a helium–carbon atmosphere with pronounced tidal deformation.

Study Calculates How Tiny Black Holes Could Injure Humans—and Why Encounters Are Virtually Impossible

NASA Publishes Mars-Captured Views of Interstellar 3I/ATLAS as Minority Raises ‘Anomalies’

Webb Maps Four Dust Spirals and Confirms Third Star in Rare Apep Wolf-Rayet System

First Radio-Bright Tidal Disruption Event Found Outside a Galaxy’s Core Shows Record-Fast Flares

Lab Radiation Tests Complicate Ocean Origin for Enceladus Organics

36-Billion-Solar-Mass Black Hole Confirmed in Distant Cosmic Horseshoe Galaxy

Dual Lensing-Kinematics Study Confirms 36-Billion-Solar-Mass Black Hole in Cosmic Horseshoe

Webb Reveals Silicate Clouds and Moon-Forming Disk in YSES-1 System

Astronomers Confirm Rare Binary with Neutron Star Stripping Companion