For the first time, scientists have developed a 3D map of an atmosphere belonging to a planet outside our solar system.

Astronomers have mapped, for the first time, the three-dimensional structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, revealing ...

Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar ...

Image an alien planet where savage winds rip through the atmosphere carrying molten iron and titanium particles. Such a ...

The research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.

Astronomers have peered into an alien planet's atmosphere and found extreme weather unlike anything in the solar system.

Tylos is a gas giant 900 light-years away - and astronomers have now mapped its astonishing atmosphere in 3D for the first ...

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

Located 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis, WASP-121b is an ultra-hot Jupiter, a gas giant orbiting its star so closely that a year lasts just 30 Earth hours. One side of the planet is ...

The gas giant WASP-121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

Learn more about the atmosphere of WASP-121b, or Tylos, whose winds are layered like no other planet’s.

Astronomers have mapped the 3D structure of an alien planet's atmosphere for the first time, revealing a layered system of extreme winds.