Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

Astronomers may have inadvertently complicated the mystery of how strange "roasting marshmallow" planets form. Using the Gemini South telescope, researchers found that the "hot and puffy" ultra-hot ...

Using the space telescope, a team of astronomers has detected with unprecedented precision two tails of helium escaping from ...

The distant world WASP-121b is already bizarre. It's football-shaped and rains gems. Now, astronomers leveraged the power of four telescopes to observe what's transpiring deep inside this giant ...

What effects can an exoplanet orbiting close to its star have on the former’s atmosphere? This is what a recent study ...

Around 900 light-years away, a gas giant exoplanet unlike anything in our solar system is rewriting the rules of extreme ...

An artist's conception of a gas giant world (the large planet on the right) in another solar system. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / T. Pyle (SSC) The distant world WASP-121b is so hot that it hosts ...

A sizzling exoplanet caught by the James Webb Space Telescope is shedding its atmosphere and leaving behind two gigantic helium tails.

How do ultra-hot Jupiters form and evolve? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the origins of WASP-121b, which is an ...

For the first time, scientists have developed a 3D map of an atmosphere belonging to a planet outside our solar system. Attached to a particularly mysterious alien world, the newly charted atmosphere ...

Extreme heating and tidal locking results in fierce cyclones and powerful storms in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-121b. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...