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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists from the University of Bern and the University of Geneva have been conducting atmospheric research on an incredibly hot exoplanet called WASP-121b. During the study, they discovered several ...

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 ...