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JWST Finds Record-Low Metallicity in ‘Forbidden’ Giant Planet Around a Red Dwarf

The record-low atmospheric metal content challenges how giant planets assemble around small stars.

Second Infant Planet Confirmed Forming Around Nearby Star WISPIT 2

TESS Reveals Most Compact 3+1 Quadruple-Star System Yet

Earth-Sized Exoplanet Candidate Found 146 Light-Years Away Around a K-Dwarf

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

Nearby Habitable-Zone Super-Earth Candidate GJ 251 c Announced in Peer-Reviewed Study

Simulations Recreate Globular Clusters and Predict Dark-Matter-Bearing Lookalikes

Astronomers Confirm Rare Quadruple System Pairing Two Red Dwarfs With Two T-Type Brown Dwarfs

Saturn-Sized Exoplanet Orbits Record-Low Mass Star, Challenging Formation Theories

Giant Exoplanet Orbits Tiny Red Dwarf, Defying Planet Formation Theory

Astronomers Confirm Four Rocky Planets Orbiting Barnard's Star

Four Sub-Earth Exoplanets Confirmed Around Barnard's Star

Astronomers Discover Youngest Transiting Exoplanet Ever Observed

Hubble Captures Dramatic Outbursts from R Aquarii Binary Star System

Astronomers Discover Triple Star System with Record-Breaking Orbital Period

New Exoplanet Discovered Orbiting Barnard's Star, Just 6 Light Years Away

Astronomers Capture First High-Resolution Images of Spotted Polaris

Astronomers Discover Exoplanet with Most Eccentric Orbit Yet

Rare Nova Explosion to Illuminate Night Sky This Summer

James Webb Telescope Unveils Twin Stars in Long-Studied System