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

The study confirms a feedback loop linking Saturn’s upper air to its magnetosphere.

Webb Observations Eliminate 2032 Lunar-Impact Risk From Asteroid 2024 YR4

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 Sees Protostar Forge Crystals in Outbursts, Then Hurl Them to Comet-Building Zones

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

Webb Unveils Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way’s Largest Star-Forming Cloud, in Unprecedented Detail

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

JWST Rules Out CO2-Dominated Sky on TRAPPIST-1e

JWST Spots Unusually Compact Early-Universe Black Hole That May Predate Its Galaxy

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

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

JWST Finds No Atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1d, Removing It From Earth-Analog List