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3d ago

Youngest Known Exoplanet Confirmed Inside Its Birth Disk

A peer-reviewed study reports a gas giant under one million years old at roughly 55 AU that is still accreting, challenging planet-formation timescales.

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2w ago

Hubble Confirms a Ten‑Sided Decagon at Saturn’s South Pole

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Webb Finds Clay on Neptune's Inner Moons and Rings

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2mo ago

Astronomers Confirm Third Planet in Beta Pictoris, the Faintest Ever Imaged From Earth

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3mo ago

Juno Data Refine Jupiter’s Size, Finding the Giant Slightly Smaller and More Flattened

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7mo ago

New Jupiter Model Finds More Oxygen and Far Slower Atmospheric Mixing

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8mo ago

Jupiter Nears Opposition, Set to Dominate the Night Sky on January 10

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8mo ago

Hubble Spots Record-Breaking, Chaotic Planet-Forming Disk ‘Dracula’s Chivito’

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9mo ago

New Models Suggest Uranus and Neptune May Be Far Rockier Than Long Assumed

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9mo ago

JWST Finds Twin Helium Tails Streaming From Hot Jupiter WASP-121b

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9mo ago

Astronomers Report Tentative Exomoon Around HD 206893 B Using Precision Astrometry

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9mo ago

Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Shows Persistent Dust Anti‑Tail as Jupiter Flyby Nears

Gas Giants

Youngest Known Exoplanet Confirmed Inside Its Birth Disk

Hubble Confirms a Ten‑Sided Decagon at Saturn’s South Pole

Webb Finds Clay on Neptune's Inner Moons and Rings

Astronomers Confirm Third Planet in Beta Pictoris, the Faintest Ever Imaged From Earth

Webb Resolves Dawn and Dusk on Hot Jupiters

JWST Resolves Morning Clouds and Clear Evenings on Hot Jupiter WASP-94A b

Study Challenges 'Ice Giant' Label for Uranus and Neptune

JWST Spots Water-Ice Clouds on Nearby Jupiter-Like World

NASA Unveils Paired Webb and Hubble Views of Saturn

Second Infant Planet Confirmed Forming Around Nearby Star WISPIT 2

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Juno Radio Occultations Sharpen Jupiter’s Dimensions, Reveal Greater Oblateness

JWST Spots Sulfur in HR 8799 c, Strengthening Case for Core Accretion

Juno Data Refine Jupiter’s Size, Finding the Giant Slightly Smaller and More Flattened

New Jupiter Model Finds More Oxygen and Far Slower Atmospheric Mixing

Jupiter Nears Opposition, Set to Dominate the Night Sky on January 10

Hubble Spots Record-Breaking, Chaotic Planet-Forming Disk ‘Dracula’s Chivito’

New Models Suggest Uranus and Neptune May Be Far Rockier Than Long Assumed

JWST Finds Twin Helium Tails Streaming From Hot Jupiter WASP-121b

Astronomers Report Tentative Exomoon Around HD 206893 B Using Precision Astrometry

Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Shows Persistent Dust Anti‑Tail as Jupiter Flyby Nears

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Gas Giants