Meet Tylos: a gas giant 900 light years away and with a climate never seen before on any planet known to scientists.
Some exoplanets have characteristics totally alien to our Solar System. Hot Jupiters are one such type. They can have orbital ...
A new study published by an international team of researchers led by Taro Matsuo, an astrophysicist at Nagoya University in Japan, argues that this evolutionary trend made sense 3 billion years when ...
Astronomers have mapped the 3D structure of an alien planet's atmosphere for the first time, revealing a layered system of extreme winds.
Purple Earth Hypothesis suggests Earth was once a purple planet. Early microbes used retinal, not chlorophyll, for ...
Located 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis, WASP-121b is an ultra-hot Jupiter, a gas giant orbiting its star so closely that a year lasts just 30 Earth hours. One side of the planet is ...
A recent study has unveiled how chemical elements and powerful winds shape the atmosphere of a planet far beyond our solar system.
Located around 900 light-years away in the Puppis constellation, Tylos orbits its parent star at an absurdly close distance, ...
For the first time, scientists have developed a 3D map of an atmosphere belonging to a planet outside our solar system.
Astronomers have discovered by looking through an exoplanet's atmosphere and mapping its 3D structure for the first time ...
NASA has been monitoring a never-before-seen planet in its solar system, which is eight times the size of Earth.
Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar ...