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Two Super-Puff Planets Found Lighter Than Cotton Candy

Oxford astronomers confirmed two gas giant planets less dense than cotton candy — among the least dense worlds ever found — with citizen scientists and NASA's TESS telescope leading the way.

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NASA's Psyche Spacecraft Nails Its Mars Flyby

NASA's Psyche just completed a flawless Mars gravity-assist flyby, passing all instrument tests and staying perfectly on course for its 2029 encounter with metallic asteroid 16 Psyche.

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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.

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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.

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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.