Last year, astronomers discovered an unusual Earth-size exoplanet they believe has a hemisphere of molten lava, with its ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...

Researchers have peered into the atmosphere of planet WASP-121b and found its climate is stranger than anyone imagined.

Learn more about the atmosphere of WASP-121b, or Tylos, whose winds are layered like no other planet’s.

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...

Astronomers have discovered by looking through an exoplanet's atmosphere and mapping its 3D structure for the first time ...

Astronomers have discovered a powerful jet stream raging through the atmosphere of an ultra-hot Jupiter exoplanet ravaged by ...

For the first time, scientists have developed a 3D map of an atmosphere belonging to a planet outside our solar system.

Tylos (or WASP-121b) is a gaseous, giant exoplanet located some 900 light-years away. Astronomers were able to differentiate ...

Many scientists have long thought that developing planets should resemble the swirling disk of gas and dust that births them.

A recent study has unveiled how chemical elements and powerful winds shape the atmosphere of a planet far beyond our solar system.