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Radio Emission Localized to Exoplanet Beta Pictoris b

If validated by peer review this detection would give astronomers a direct way to measure an exoplanet's magnetic field

Astronomers Confirm Elias 2-24 b as Youngest Known Planet

Study Finds Young Sun May Have Engulfed a 5–10 Earth‑Mass Super‑Earth

NASA Selects Blue Origin to Build and Operate Mars Telecommunications Network

Roman Telescope Poised at Cape Canaveral Ahead of Aug. 30 Falcon Heavy Launch

JWST Spectra Show Hidden Low‑Mass Stars That Raise Galaxy Masses

JWST Spectra Reveal Hidden Low-Mass Stars That Boost Early Galaxies' Masses

Firefly To Fly Zeno Americium Heater on Blue Ghost Lander

Astronomers Detect Atmosphere on Rocky Habitable‑Zone Planet LHS 1140 b

JWST Shows Jupiter‑Size Planet Migrated Into Close Orbit Around a White Dwarf

Earth May Survive Sun’s Giant Phases, New Models Suggest

Webb Finds Salt Clouds Veiling the Atmosphere of GJ 504 b

Lucy Flyby Shows Peanut‑Shaped Asteroid Is Water‑Altered Fragment of Ancient Collision

Webb Detects Methane on Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

New Theory Quantifies Why CO2 Cools the Stratosphere and Warms the Surface

TESS Survey Identifies 27 Candidate Two‑Star Planets

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

JWST Reveals Dark, Airless Surface on Rocky Exoplanet LHS 3844 b

Texas A&M Demonstrates Laser-Driven ‘Metajets’ With 3D Control

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