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Astronomers Confirm Third Planet in Beta Pictoris, the Faintest Ever Imaged From Earth

Independent VLT imaging and JWST spectroscopy show a roughly 2.4-Jupiter-mass gas giant on a ~91-year orbit, suggesting spectroscopy plus archival data can reveal many more faint planets.

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Saturn’s Rings May Be as Old as the Planet, Study Suggests

Gas Giants

Astronomers Confirm Third Planet in Beta Pictoris, the Faintest Ever Imaged From Earth

Webb Finds Salt Clouds Veiling the Atmosphere of GJ 504 b

ALMA Finds Deep Carbon Monoxide That Points to an Ice-Rich Uranus

Second Forming Planet Confirmed in WISPIT 2 Disk

Late-Blooming Rocky World, JWST Chemistry Recast Planet Formation

Jupiter Nears Opposition, Set to Dominate the Night Sky on January 10

JWST Maps Comet-Like Helium Escape From Super-Puff Exoplanet WASP-107b

JWST Finds Silicate Vapor and Night-Side Methane on Ultra-Hot Jupiter WASP-121b

Study Reveals Jupiter’s Early Size and Magnetic Power

Saturn’s Rings May Be as Old as the Planet, Study Suggests