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Planetary Formation

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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

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

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5mo ago

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

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6mo ago

Kepler Archive Yields Earth-Size Planet Candidate with Yearlike Orbit

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6mo ago

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

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7mo ago

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

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7mo ago

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

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7mo ago

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

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7mo ago

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

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7mo ago

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

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7mo ago

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

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7mo ago

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

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9mo ago

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

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9mo ago

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

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10mo ago

Rogue Planet Devours Matter at Record 6 Billion Tons Per Second

Planetary Formation

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

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Planetary Formation

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

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

Rogue Planet Devours Matter at Record 6 Billion Tons Per Second

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Planetary Formation