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Astronomers Confirm Nearby Super‑Earth GJ 3378b in Habitable Zone

Its orbit with Earth‑like starlight makes it a prime target for direct imaging to determine whether it holds an atmosphere.

Webb Finds Salt Clouds Veiling the Atmosphere of GJ 504 b

JWST Finds Salt Clouds Veiling the Pink Planet GJ504b

Cornell Catalog Identifies 45 Rocky Exoplanets in Habitable Zones

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

Kepler Archive Yields Earth-Size Planet Candidate with Yearlike Orbit

Webb Spots Carbon-Rich, Lemon-Shaped Planet Orbiting a Pulsar

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

JWST Maps Giant Dual Helium Tails Streaming From Ultra-Hot Jupiter WASP-121 b

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

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

New UC Santa Cruz Model Explains JWST’s Steam‑Rich Sub‑Neptunes

JWST Finds No Atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1d, Removing It From Earth-Analog List

Framework for Lava Planet Evolution Secures 100 Hours of JWST Time

Doubts Deepen Over Potential Biosignature on Exoplanet K2-18b

Potential Biosignatures Detected on Exoplanet K2-18b Challenge Understanding of Life Beyond Earth

Potential Biosignature Detected on Exoplanet K2-18b

Potential Biosignatures Detected on Exoplanet K2-18b

BepiColombo Flyby Reveals Complex Magnetic Features on Mercury

NASA Confirms Existence of Long-Hypothesized Ambipolar Electric Field