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Radio Emission Localized to Exoplanet Beta Pictoris b

If validated by peer review this detection would give astronomers a direct way to measure an exoplanet's magnetic field

Astronomers Confirm Elias 2-24 b as Youngest Known Planet

Roman Space Telescope Begins Transit to L2 After Successful Falcon Heavy Launch

Roman Space Telescope Set to Launch Sunday on SpaceX Falcon Heavy

JWST Finds Magnetic Jets Yield to Photoevaporative Winds, Closing the Window for Gas-Planet Formation

VLT Confirms Ancient, Non‑Solar Chemistry in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

TESS Detects First Planet by Gravitational Microlensing

New Models Suggest Earth Could Avoid Being Engulfed by the Sun

TESS Survey Identifies 27 Candidate Two‑Star Planets

Second Infant Planet Confirmed Forming Around Nearby Star WISPIT 2

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

Caltech Astrophysicist Carl Grillmair Killed as 29-Year-Old Is Charged With Murder

CHEOPS Reveals 'Inside-Out' Four-Planet System Around Red Dwarf LHS 1903

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

Astronomers Make First Direct Mass Measurement of a Rogue Planet

Hubble Captures Record-Breaking Chaotic Planet-Forming Disk 1,000 Light-Years Away

Hubble Spots Second Debris Cloud at Fomalhaut, Confirming Repeated Planetesimal Collisions

Early JWST Campaign Finds Stellar Noise Hindering TRAPPIST-1e Atmosphere Test

Comet Lemmon Makes Closest Approach Oct. 20–21 With Prime Viewing Under New Moon

Last Quarter Moon Draws Close to Jupiter Overnight in Easy Sky Show