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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.

Lucy Flyby Shows Peanut‑Shaped Asteroid Is Water‑Altered Fragment of Ancient Collision

Webb Detects Methane on Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

New Theory Quantifies Why CO2 Cools the Stratosphere and Warms the Surface

TESS Survey Identifies 27 Candidate Two‑Star Planets

Webb Maps the Surface of a Nearby Super-Earth, Revealing a Dark Basaltic World

JWST Reveals Dark, Airless Surface on Rocky Exoplanet LHS 3844 b

Texas A&M Demonstrates Laser-Driven ‘Metajets’ With 3D Control

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

Hubble Spots First Known Comet Spin Reversal

Cornell Catalog Identifies 45 Rocky Exoplanets in Habitable Zones

Astronomers Tie Distant Star’s Chaotic Fading to Evidence of a Planetary Collision

Study Ties ASASSN-24fw’s 200-Day Fade to Ringed Brown Dwarf or Super-Jupiter

Kepler Data Reveal Earth-Size Planet Candidate HD 137010 b Near Star’s Habitable Edge

Giant Metal-Bearing Cloud Tied to Hidden Companion Explains Months-Long Dimming of Sun-Like Star

NASA Confirms Pandora Exoplanet Observatory Is Healthy After Launch, Begins Commissioning

SpaceX Debuts 'Twilight' Rideshare, Deploys About 40 Smallsats to Dusk–Dawn Orbit

Caltech Names Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana Its Next President

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

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