However, scientists would have to fly to an exoplanet to produce the so-called "super-diamond". To create BC8, an eight-atom body-centered cubic crystal exhibiting a 30% greater resistance to ...

"I do not believe we yet have convincing evidence of the presence of DMS in K2-18b's atmosphere." In 2023, debate erupted in the astronomy community about whether life could exist on an exoplanet ...

But some exoplanets are so unique that they almost defy shorthand. There's an exoplanet where molten diamond raindrops are flung from the sky by a howling maelstrom whose winds move at thousands ...

"Even the strongest hurricanes in the solar system seem calm in comparison." WASP-121 b is the definition of an "extreme" exoplanet — it's so hot that it rains droplets of liquid iron.

Tylos (or WASP-121b) is a gaseous, giant exoplanet located some 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. Using the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), scientists ...

Astronomers have detected over 5,800 confirmed exoplanets. One extreme class is ultra-hot Jupiters, of particular interest because they can provide a unique window into planetary atmospheric dynamics.

Exoplanet LTT9779 b, which orbits a star about 262 light-years from Earth, is so reflective it acts almost like a mirror, the European Space Agency (ESA) said in a press release. This planet's hot ...

Exoplanets come in extreme forms—lava spheres, diamond cores, and even planets that rain molten iron—but some are eerily Earth-like and sit in their star’s habitable zone. Traditionally ...