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Webb Finds Salt Clouds Veiling the Atmosphere of GJ 504 b

This demonstrates that JWST can retrieve spectra from much colder, fainter companions.

JWST Finds Salt Clouds Veiling the Pink Planet GJ504b

JWST Resolves Morning Clouds and Clear Evenings on Hot Jupiter WASP-94A b

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Shows Extreme Heavy-Water Enrichment, Study Finds

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

JWST Detects Methane From Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Ubiquitous Carbon Film Found to Control Static Charge Flow on Insulating Oxides

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

ALMA’s ARKS Survey Delivers Sharpest-Ever Map of 24 ExoKuiper Belts

Nature Study Weighs Four Young V1298 Tau Planets, Revealing Ultra‑Low Densities

Saturn-Mass Rogue Planet Gets First Direct Mass and Distance Measurement

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

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

JWST Finds Strong Evidence of a Thick Atmosphere on Molten Super-Earth TOI-561 b

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

Ancient Mantle Rocks Reveal Potassium-40 Deficit Linked to Surviving Proto‑Earth

Rogue Planet Devours Matter at Record 6 Billion Tons Per Second

Rogue Planet Cha 1107‑7626 Caught in Record Growth Spurt at 6 Billion Tons per Second

SwRI Says Interstellar Comet Flybys Are Achievable as 3I/ATLAS Defies Expectations

Gas Giant HIP 67522 b Triggers Intense Stellar Flares, Accelerating Its Atmospheric Loss