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

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

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

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

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, Callisto, appears geologically unremarkable. In the 1990s, however, NASA's ...

Scientists have peered through the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system and discovered weather patterns "like ...

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 ...

However, you might be surprised to know that Earth is not alone in having volcanoes – in fact, it’s beaten numerically by the ...

Last year, astronomers discovered an unusual Earth-size exoplanet they believe has a hemisphere of molten lava, with its ...

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

The planet is tidally locked to its star, which means one side is always facing it and, for that reason, has a scorching ...

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