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James Webb Space Telescope

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Webb Maps the Surface of a Nearby Super-Earth, Revealing a Dark Basaltic World

The mid-infrared reading opens a new way to read rocky exoplanet geology.

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

JWST Spots Water-Ice Clouds on Nearby Jupiter-Like World

JWST Spots Record-Low Metallicity in ‘Forbidden’ Giant Planet’s Atmosphere

Webb Unveils Layered 'Exposed Cranium' Nebula With Jet-Carved Divide

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

JWST Detects First Extragalactic Methyl Radical in Carbon‑Rich, Dust‑Buried Galaxy

Webb Delivers Sharpest Contiguous Map of Dark Matter’s Cosmic Web

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

Webb’s Interferometric Image Reveals Dusty Torus Feeding Circinus Galaxy’s Black Hole

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

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

JWST Maps Giant Dual Helium Tails Streaming From Ultra-Hot Jupiter WASP-121 b

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

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

JWST Delivers First 3D Map of an Exoplanet's Atmosphere

JWST Finds Phosphine on Ancient Brown Dwarf, Matching Model Predictions

JWST Study Finds Aurora-Driven Heating and Thermal Inversion on Nearby Rogue World SIMP-0136

Webb Makes First Direct Chemical Reading of a Moon-Forming Disk Around CT Cha b

Webb Study Detects Auroral Heating and Sub‑5°C Weather Shifts on Rogue Planet SIMP‑0136