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Study Says Venus Likely Swallowed a Moon

Computer models show Venus’s very slow spin would pull a satellite inward, creating a testable explanation for the planet’s lack of a moon.

Webb Finds Salt Clouds Veiling the Atmosphere of GJ 504 b

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

Oxford-Led Team Proposes New Exoplanet Class With Sulfur-Rich Magma-Ocean World L 98-59 d

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

Kepler Archive Yields Earth-Size Planet Candidate with Yearlike Orbit

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

New Models Suggest Uranus and Neptune May Be Far Rockier Than Long Assumed

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Reaches Perihelion as Study Points to Europa Clipper Tail Sampling Window