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JWST Reveals Heavy, Water- and CO2-Rich Atmosphere on Mini-Neptune Beside a Hot Jupiter

The volatile-rich air points to formation beyond the frost line, evidence of paired migration.

Webb Maps the Surface of a Nearby Super-Earth, Revealing a Dark Basaltic World

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

Webb Data Point to Sulfur‑Rich Magma‑Ocean Planet L 98‑59 d

JWST Helps Reveal Sulfur-Rich Magma-Ocean World L 98-59 d

Oxford-Led Team Proposes New Exoplanet Class With Sulfur-Rich Magma-Ocean World L 98-59 d

Astronomers Find Rare ‘Inside-Out’ Planetary System With Rocky Outer World

Kepler Archive Reveals Earth-Size Exoplanet Candidate Near Habitable Zone

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

Kepler Archive Yields Earth-Size Planet Candidate with Yearlike Orbit

Juno Sounding Finds Europa’s Outer Ice Layer Averages 18 Miles Thick in Surveyed Region

High-Resolution Mars Mapping Points to Arctic-Sized Ocean 3 Billion Years Ago

First All-Sky Census of Nearby K Dwarfs Flags 529 Prime Targets for Earth-Like Planet Searches

Astronomers Report Tentative Exomoon Around HD 206893 B Using Precision Astrometry

Experiments Confirm Hydrogen–Rock Reactions Can Create Large Water Stores Inside Sub-Neptunes

Scientists Detect Habitable-Zone ‘Super‑Earth’ GJ 251 c Just 18 Light‑Years Away

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

NASA Confirms 6,000 Exoplanets, Marking a New Phase in the Search for Other Worlds

JWST Rules Out CO2-Dominated Sky on TRAPPIST-1e

New Study Suggests Ancient Ceres Had Chemical Energy to Support Habitability