For the first time, scientists have discovered an exoplanet that defies the usual pace of time. WASP-121b, located 900 ...
Astronomers have mapped the weather of a distant exoplanet for the first time, uncovering a world of extreme winds, searing ...
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its ...
In a thrilling development, scientists have confirmed the discovery of a new "super-Earth" exoplanet that may have the ...
Scientists say they are rethinking how the weather works after creating a 3D map of an exoplanet 900 light-years away and discovering a world with jet streams fueling wild storms.
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Last year, astronomers discovered an unusual Earth-size exoplanet they believe has a hemisphere of molten lava, with its ...
"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.
Astronomers have discovered a powerful jet stream raging through the atmosphere of an ultra-hot Jupiter exoplanet ravaged by ...
The exoplanet in question is a gas giant (a large planet primarily made of helium and/or hydrogen) roughly 900 light years away from Earth. It closely orbits its star in just around 30 hours—so ...
By measuring the masses of known exoplanets, astronomers found that the radius gap corresponds to a transition in composition. Planets with masses below the gap are dense and rocky like Earth ...
A recent study has unveiled how chemical elements and powerful winds shape the atmosphere of a planet far beyond our solar system.