Discover how NASA’s James Webb Telescope unveiled GJ 1214 b, an exoplanet possibly rich in water vapour and hidden beneath ...
Astronomers from MIT, the University of Liège in Belgium, and other institutions have stumbled upon a truly bizarre planet—an ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have characterized the atmosphere ... hot Neptune desert—a region of parameter space at high insolation fluxes and intermediate planet ...
A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, will grace our night sky just after dusk, according to ...
In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) per hour, but they are not the strongest in our solar system. The ...
Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet-stream of its kind ever ...
One of the most common types of exoplanets falls in a size range between Earth and Neptune ... be common on this type of planet, and make it difficult to study the atmosphere below the cloud ...