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James Webb Space Telescope

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Webb Reveals 3I/ATLAS as an Ancient Comet Born in a Frigid, Metal‑Poor Environment

Extreme isotope measurements suggest our local comets may not represent comet chemistry across the galaxy.

JWST Finds Salt Clouds Veiling the Pink Planet GJ504b

Study Suggests Nereid Is Neptune’s Last Intact Original Moon

JWST Reveals Dark, Airless Surface on Rocky Exoplanet LHS 3844 b

JWST Maps Tie Saturn’s Rotation Mystery to an Aurora-Driven Heat Loop

JWST Details Io and Europa Auroral Footprints, Finds Rapid, Dense Cold Spot on Jupiter

JWST Charts Uranus’s Upper Atmosphere in 3D, Exposing Auroral Bands and a Cooling Trend

James Webb Delivers First 3D Map of Uranus’s Upper Atmosphere

JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Are Young Black Holes Shrouded in Gas, Nature Study Finds

JWST Reveals Pulsar-Orbiting ‘Lemon’ Planet With Helium–Carbon Atmosphere

Webb Data Point to Thick Atmosphere on Ultra‑Hot Super‑Earth TOI‑561 b

JWST Reveals Unexplained ‘Dark Beads’ and Asymmetric Star Pattern Over Saturn’s North Pole

Webb Spots Dark Beads and Lopsided Star Pattern Aligned Over Saturn’s Hexagon

JWST Study Proposes ‘Black Hole Stars’ to Explain Mysterious Early‑Universe Red Dots

Webb Reveals 8-Light-Year Protostellar Jet, Bolstering Massive-Star Formation Theory

Webb Spots Methane Gas Above Dwarf Planet Makemake

New UC Santa Cruz Model Explains JWST’s Steam‑Rich Sub‑Neptunes

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

Infinity Galaxy’s Newborn Black Hole Shows Evidence of Direct Collapse