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Astronomers Confirm Elias 2-24 b as Youngest Known Planet

Confirmation of a Jupiter-scale planet under one million years old challenges current planet-formation models.

Study Finds Young Sun May Have Engulfed a 5–10 Earth‑Mass Super‑Earth

JWST Pixel Analysis Reveals Four Close Little Red Dot Pairs Pointing to Early Black‑Hole Clustering

JWST Spectra Reveal Hidden Low-Mass Stars That Boost Early Galaxies' Masses

Astronomers Capture Clearest Image Yet of Betelgeuse’s Likely Companion

Jupiter-Mass Companion Detected Orbiting Brown Dwarf in Nearby System

Webb Detects Hidden Giant Planet Beta Pictoris d Inside Debris Disk

Simulations Suggest Milky Way Disk Flipped After Ancient 'Gaia Sausage' Collision

Astronomers Infer Magnetic Fields on Seven Ultra‑Hot Jupiters

JWST Survey Delivers Most Detailed Map of the Cosmic Web to Date

Webb Reveals Non-Rotating Massive Galaxy in the Early Universe

New Galaxy-Group Analyses Put Local Expansion Rate at About 64 km/s/Mpc

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 Archive Reveals Earth-Size Exoplanet Candidate Near Habitable Zone

AI Sifts 35 Years of Hubble Images, Flagging Over 1,300 Cosmic Anomalies

New Spectrograph Reveals Mars-Mass Iron Bar in the Ring Nebula

White Dwarf Without Disk Has Driven Thousand-Year Bow Shock, VLT Study Finds

JWST and ALMA Reveal Early Massive Galaxy Quenched by Black Hole Starvation

New Studies Challenge M–Sigma for Giants and Deliver Most Detailed X-Ray Spectrum Yet