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Webb Finds Carbon-Rich, Helium-Dominated Atmosphere on Pulsar-Orbiting Planet

Because the pulsar emits little infrared light, Webb could read the companion’s atmosphere directly.

Webb Confirms Overmassive Black Hole Feeding in a Galaxy 570 Million Years After the Big Bang

JWST Finds Five Complex Organic Ices Around a Protostar in the Large Magellanic Cloud

JWST Finds Phosphine on Ancient Brown Dwarf, Matching Model Predictions

JWST Spots Tentative Signs of an Atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1e

Webb Reveals Butterfly Nebula’s Hidden Core and Planet-Building Dust

New Modeling Strengthens Direct-Collapse Black Hole Explanation for JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’

Webb Telescope Rules Out Atmosphere on Earth-Sized Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d

Asteroid 2024 YR4 Now Has 4.3% Chance of Striking the Moon