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Closest Directly Imaged Planet Around Two Suns Confirmed on a 300-Year Orbit

The directly imaged, 13-million-year-old gas giant provides a rare testbed for how planets form in two-star systems.

JWST Study Finds Aurora-Driven Heating and Thermal Inversion on Nearby Rogue World SIMP-0136

Study Finds Uranus Emits 12.5% More Heat Than It Absorbs