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last mo.

JWST Finds Salt Clouds Veiling the Pink Planet GJ504b

The telescope’s spectrum shows water, methane, carbon dioxide and ammonia beneath chloride or sulfide salt clouds and signals that clouds must be included in models.

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2mo ago

First Detection of Heavy Water in a Planet-Forming Disk Points to Prestellar Origins

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9mo ago

Rogue Planet Devours Matter at Record 6 Billion Tons Per Second

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10mo ago

Free-Floating Planet Registers Record Growth Burst Spotted by ESO’s VLT

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11mo ago

Study Pins Jupiter’s Birth to 1.8 Million Years After the Solar System Began

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11mo ago

Study Hints at 'Planet Y' in Outer Solar System After Kuiper Belt Warp Detected

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11mo ago

Psyche Spacecraft Snaps Distant Earth–Moon Portrait During Instrument Checkout

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11mo ago

Webb Uncovers Provisional Saturn-Mass Exoplanet in Alpha Centauri A’s Habitable Zone

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last yr.

James Webb Space Telescope Captures First Exoplanet by Direct Imaging

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last yr.

Saturn-Sized Exoplanet Orbits Record-Low Mass Star, Challenging Formation Theories

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last yr.

Webb Telescope Confirms First Extraterrestrial Water Ice in Young Star System

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last yr.

James Webb Telescope Unveils Clear Atmosphere of Hot Sub-Neptune TOI-421 b

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last yr.

Astronomers Confirm Super-Earths Are Common in Distant Orbits Across the Milky Way

Planet Formation

JWST Finds Salt Clouds Veiling the Pink Planet GJ504b

Webb and Hubble Show Massive Star Clusters Shed Birth Clouds Sooner

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

Astronomers Make First Direct Mass Measurement of a Rogue Planet

Webb Reveals Carbon-Heavy, Helium-Rich ‘Lemon’ World Orbiting a Pulsar

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

Closest Directly Imaged Planet Around Two Suns Confirmed on a 300-Year Orbit

Early Jupiter Shaped the Inner Solar System, Study Finds

First Detection of Heavy Water in a Planet-Forming Disk Points to Prestellar Origins

Rogue Planet Devours Matter at Record 6 Billion Tons Per Second

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Planet Formation

Free-Floating Planet Registers Record Growth Burst Spotted by ESO’s VLT

Study Pins Jupiter’s Birth to 1.8 Million Years After the Solar System Began

Study Hints at 'Planet Y' in Outer Solar System After Kuiper Belt Warp Detected

Psyche Spacecraft Snaps Distant Earth–Moon Portrait During Instrument Checkout

Webb Uncovers Provisional Saturn-Mass Exoplanet in Alpha Centauri A’s Habitable Zone

James Webb Space Telescope Captures First Exoplanet by Direct Imaging

Saturn-Sized Exoplanet Orbits Record-Low Mass Star, Challenging Formation Theories

Webb Telescope Confirms First Extraterrestrial Water Ice in Young Star System

James Webb Telescope Unveils Clear Atmosphere of Hot Sub-Neptune TOI-421 b

Astronomers Confirm Super-Earths Are Common in Distant Orbits Across the Milky Way

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Planet Formation