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 ...

Astronomers have broken new ground in the field of exoplanet research by creating the first-ever 3D map of an exoplanet’s atmosphere. The subject of this pioneering study, WASP-121b, has revealed a ...

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 ...

New observations of the football-shaped exoplanet known as WASP-121b have revealed clues to its atmosphere and weather. Astronomers say it may have metal clouds made up of iron, corundum, and titanium ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The distant world WASP-121b is so hot that it hosts metallic clouds and rains gems. Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter" — in 2016, but have continued to investigate ...