“This planet’s atmosphere behaves in ways that challenge our understanding of how weather works – not just on Earth, but on ...

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

Astronomers have discovered a powerful jet stream raging through the atmosphere of an ultra-hot Jupiter exoplanet ravaged by ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...

Researchers have peered into the atmosphere of planet WASP-121b and found its climate is stranger than anyone imagined.

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

Office colleagues struggled to pass a giant volleyball during a party game. Footage shows the team members rushing to chase the massive inflatable hovering over them to try and spike it over the net ...

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

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...

This artist’s visualization of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from ... For example, weather studies like this one can only be conducted with ground-based telescopes. The ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...