A Carbon Forge on a Windy Planet Around a Pulsar
A wind blowing against the planet's rotation stokes a carbon forge. That is what the atmosphere of PSR J2322-2650b looks like: a Jupiter-like companion to a millisecond pulsar.
A Volcanic Planet Breathes Hydrogen
A planet the size of Neptune, but glowing white-hot. Beneath the clouds lies an ocean of magma capable of absorbing an entire hydrogen atmosphere. The new SEAMIST model is the first to trace how such dissolution changes a planet's fate from birth to old age.
The big surprise is the mechanism of catastrophic boiling.
The Universe's Recipe: A Sub-Saturn Around a Cool Star Reveals a Standard Method for Making Giants
Some 158 light-years away, around the dim star TOI-6894, a red dwarf, a planet moves leisurely. Its year lasts less than two Earth days, yet it is a cool world with an equilibrium temperature around 420 K, just a bit warmer than a sauna.