Researchers employing the James Webb Space Telescope and Canada's NIRISS instrument have observed exoplanet WASP-121b getting ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...

The James Webb Space Telescope finds WASP-121b leaking two long helium tails, offering new insight into atmospheric escape on hot Jupiter exoplanets ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This artistic impression depicts the stage at which WASP-121b accumulated most of its gas, as inferred from the latest results. The illustration suggests that the forming planet had cleared its ...

What can a 3D map of an exoplanet’s atmosphere teach scientists about its weather patterns? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

An exoplanet called "WASP-121b" is NASA Hubble's recent discovery that saw how it drizzled the liquid form of gems that will fall and turn into uncut treasures from the sky. The rain brings on the ...

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 ...