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Scientists Find Faintest Exoplanet Ever Seen From Earth
Two independent teams — one using JWST, one the Very Large Telescope — confirmed Beta Pictoris d, a gas giant that had hidden in telescope images for over a decade.
Technology
World's Largest Telescope Hits Major Milestone in Chile
ESO's 39-meter Extremely Large Telescope clears a landmark construction hurdle, bringing humanity's biggest eye on the sky closer to first light.
Science
Rubin Observatory Begins 10-Year Cosmic Survey
The world's most powerful survey telescope opened its eye on the southern sky on June 30 — beginning a 10-year census of billions of stars and galaxies.
Science
31 Oldest Quasars Ever Found: Universe Was Just 5% Its Age
ESA's Euclid telescope discovered 31 ancient quasars — two formed just 670 million years after the Big Bang, the oldest ever observed, shining with the light of a trillion suns.
Science
Astronomers Catch a Magnetar Being Born for the First Time
A distant supernova's strange "chirping" signal has confirmed a decades-old theory — the ultra-magnetic corpses of massive stars can power the brightest explosions in the universe.
Science
JWST Cracks the 'Pink Planet' Mystery: Salt Clouds 57 Light-Years Away
The James Webb Space Telescope has finally peered inside GJ 504b, a strange pink-hued world orbiting a sun-like star, and found something never confirmed before in such an object: skies laced with salt.
Science
Astronomers Detect Magnetic Fields Around Exoplanets for the First Time
Using the Very Large Telescope, astronomers measured planet-wide magnetic fields on seven hot Jupiters — a key ingredient for habitability and a first in exoplanet science.
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Venus, Jupiter and Mercury Will Line Up With the Moon in June
A rare June 2026 conjunction will string the solar system's two brightest planets across the sky, with Mercury and a crescent Moon joining the line on the 16th.
Science
JWST Solves Saturn's 20-Year Spin Mystery: It's the Aurora
James Webb Telescope data shows Saturn's shifting rotation rate isn't the planet — it's a self-sustaining cycle of auroras, winds, and electrical currents driving its upper atmosphere.
Science
JWST Just Read the Surface of a Distant Planet for the First Time
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to directly characterize the rocky surface of LHS 3844 b — a tidally locked super-Earth 49 light-years away — confirming it is a barren, atmosphere-free world.
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Astronomers Find 27 New "Tatooine" Planets Orbiting Two Suns
A new survey announced on Star Wars Day more than doubles the known count of planets orbiting two stars at once — jumping the catalog from 18 to 45.
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JWST Spots Water-Ice Clouds on a Jupiter-Like World 12 Light-Years Away
The James Webb Space Telescope directly imaged Epsilon Indi Ab, a cool gas giant near Earth's neighborhood, and found water-ice clouds where current models said there shouldn't be any.
Science
Astronomers Find the Universe's Most Pristine Star
A star with less than 0.005% of the Sun's metals has been discovered drifting into the Milky Way — offering a rare window into the universe's earliest era.
Science
Webb Telescope Discovers a Bizarre 'Sulfur World' — A Brand-New Type of Exoplanet
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an entirely new class of exoplanet: a sulfur-drenched world with a molten interior, just 35 light-years from Earth.