For the first time, scientists have been able to map the atmosphere of WASP-121b in 3D and what they found sounds like ...

IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 weird and wonderful worlds across 4,300 planetary systems have been ...

LTT 9779 b, a scorching hot Neptune, defies death with reflective clouds, fierce winds, and traces of water vapor. This ...

Venus lacks an internally generated global magnetic field entirely. Therefore, a compass on the hellish planet would be as useless as one on the Moon. However, the compass may still act erratically if ...

One such planet is the ultra-hot Jupiter known as WASP-121b, nicknamed Tylos – a world so extreme it defies expectations. Located around 900 light-years away in the Puppis constellation ...

Earthquake shockwaves are essentially the only way we can study what's happening deep beneath the planet's surface, as no one has yet been able to dig 4,000 miles to directly probe the hellish ...

Despite being a hellish world, the hot ... based forum to help NASA shape and advance a clear strategy to probe that planet. Late last year, a VExAG gathering included a dedicated and strategic ...

Powerful winds carrying metals in a planet-wide jet stream have been discovered on a hellish world where we already know it rains molten iron. For the first time, scientists have been able to map ...

This hellish planet is infamous for two reasons: its deadly weather and its smell. According to data captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, planet HD 189733 b has an atmosphere that stinks of ...