Located 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis, WASP-121b is an ultra-hot Jupiter, a gas giant orbiting its star so ...

A recent study has unveiled how chemical elements and powerful winds shape the atmosphere of a planet far beyond our solar system.

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected potential biosignatures on the exoplanet K2-18b, raising new excitement about the ...

Earth’s oxygen will vanish in a billion years due to a brightening Sun, ending most life and leaving a methane-rich world ...

It is so ferociously hot that the “exoplanet” features iron in the form of a gas in one layer of its atmosphere, while a jet ...

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

WASP-121 b is an ultra-hot gas giant where supersonic winds reshape its atmosphere, and molten iron rains from the sky. Its ...

Astronomers have unlocked a new way to explore alien worlds by mapping the 3D structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the ...

Earth's oceans may have been green for billions of years until the first photosynthetic organisms flooded our atmosphere with ...

Scientists say that the new 3D understanding of the planet represents a major breakthrough for our understanding of the ...

Astronomers on Tuesday announced their observations of distinct winds in separate layers circulating on the planet named WASP ...