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Study Recasts Origin of Neptune’s Moon Nereid

New Webb observations supported by dynamical models suggest Nereid may be an original Neptunian satellite rather than a captured object from the Kuiper Belt.

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NASA’s Psyche Skims Mars for Gravity Assist on Course to Metal-Rich Asteroid

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JWST Finds Heavy, Water-Rich Atmosphere on Mini-Neptune in Rare Hot-Jupiter System

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

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Astronomers Tie Distant Star’s Chaotic Fading to Evidence of a Planetary Collision

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New Simulations Show Gravitational Collapse Can Build Kuiper Belt 'Snowman' Worlds

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

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Late-Blooming Rocky World, JWST Chemistry Recast Planet Formation

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Study Ties ASASSN-24fw’s 200-Day Fade to Ringed Brown Dwarf or Super-Jupiter

Planetary Formation

Study Recasts Origin of Neptune’s Moon Nereid

NASA’s Psyche Skims Mars for Gravity Assist on Course to Metal-Rich Asteroid

JWST Finds Heavy, Water-Rich Atmosphere on Mini-Neptune in Rare Hot-Jupiter System

Astronomers Detect Thin Atmosphere on Small World Beyond Pluto

TESS Survey Identifies 27 Candidate Two‑Star Planets

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

Study Reports Tenuous Atmosphere on a 500-Kilometer Kuiper Belt World

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Shows Extreme Heavy-Water Enrichment, Study Finds

JWST Spots Record-Low Metallicity in ‘Forbidden’ Giant Planet’s Atmosphere

JWST Finds Metal-Poor Atmosphere on Giant Planet Around a Small Red Dwarf

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Second Infant Planet Confirmed Forming Around Nearby Star WISPIT 2

Second Forming Planet Confirmed in WISPIT 2 Disk

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 Tie Distant Star’s Chaotic Fading to Evidence of a Planetary Collision

New Simulations Show Gravitational Collapse Can Build Kuiper Belt 'Snowman' Worlds

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

Late-Blooming Rocky World, JWST Chemistry Recast Planet Formation

Study Ties ASASSN-24fw’s 200-Day Fade to Ringed Brown Dwarf or Super-Jupiter

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