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Hubble Confirms a Ten‑Sided Decagon at Saturn’s South Pole

The feature is a vertically extended wave trapped in a polar jet that could reveal how large atmospheric patterns form on gas giants.

Webb Detects Hidden Giant Planet Beta Pictoris d Inside Debris Disk

TESS Confirms Two Jupiter‑Sized Super‑Puff Planets

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

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

JWST Finds Metal-Poor Atmosphere on Giant Planet Around a Small Red Dwarf

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

NASA Unveils Paired Webb and Hubble Views of Saturn

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

JWST Spots Sulfur in HR 8799 c, Strengthening Case for Core Accretion

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

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

Webb Spots Methane Gas Above Dwarf Planet Makemake

Study Finds Uranus Emits 12.5% More Heat Than It Absorbs

JWST spots silicon monoxide and methane in WASP-121b’s atmosphere, revealing its icy origins