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SSpace
This artist’s concept shows what PSR J2322-2650b may look like. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford, STScI.
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Webb Detects Exotic Helium-and-Carbon-Rich Atmosphere around Pulsar-Orbiting Exoplanet

  • December 17, 2025
PSR J2322-2650b, an enigmatic Jupiter-mass exoplanet orbiting the millisecond pulsar PSR J2322-2650, appears to have an exotic helium-and-carbon-dominated…
SScience
An artist’s impression of the exoplanet WASP-107b. Image credit: University of Geneva / NCCR PlanetS / Thibaut Roger.
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Webb Detects Giant Clouds of Helium Leaking from WASP-107b

  • December 1, 2025
Using high-precision spectroscopic observations from the Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb…
SSpace
4.6 billion years ago, Jupiter saved Earth during its formation
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4.6 billion years ago, Jupiter saved Earth during its formation

  • November 17, 2025
When the solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago, a gigantic cloud of dust and gas collapsed…
SScience
An artist’s impression of a Sun-like star engulfing a giant exoplanet. Image credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / M. Garlick / M. Zamani
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Aging Stars May Be Destroying Close-In Giant Exoplanets, Astronomers Say

  • November 6, 2025
At the end of their main-sequence life span, stars similar in mass to our Sun will undergo a…
SScience
The hot-Jupiter WASP-18b. Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Astronomers Create 3D Temperature Map of Hot-Jupiter WASP-18b

  • October 29, 2025
The new map of WASP-18b, a hot-Jupiter exoplanet located approximately 325 light-years from Earth, reveals an atmosphere with…
SScience
Growing baby planet captured for first time in dark circle | Features
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Growing baby planet captured for first time in dark circle | Features

  • October 2, 2025
(Laird Close/Univ. of Arizona via SWNS) By Talker By Dean Murray A team of astronomers has detected for…
SScience
An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet CT Cha b. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / G. Cugno, University of Zürich & NCCR PlanetS / S. Grant, Carnegie Institution for Science / J. Olmsted, STScI / L. Hustak, STScI.
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Webb Discovers Exomoon-Forming Circumplanetary Disk around Gas-Giant Exoplanet

  • September 29, 2025
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have found the carbon-rich disk surrounding CT Cha b, a…
SScience
Detections of near-infrared emissions in Saturn’s ionosphere (left) show dark bead-like features embedded within bright aurora; in the stratosphere (right), 500 km below, a lopsided star-pattern extends towards the equator. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / Stallard et al.
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Webb Detects Complex Structures in Upper Atmosphere of Saturn

  • September 19, 2025
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope have detected a series of dark, bead-like and asymmetric star-shaped…
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