Powerful winds carrying metals in a planet-wide jet stream have been discovered on a hellish world where we already know it rains molten iron. For the first time, scientists have been able to map ...

Located around 900 light-years away in the Puppis constellation, Tylos orbits its parent star at an absurdly close distance, ...

IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 weird and wonderful worlds across 4,300 planetary systems have been ...

This hellish planet is infamous for two reasons: its deadly weather and its smell. According to data captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, planet HD 189733 b has an atmosphere that stinks of ...

Venus lacks an internally generated global magnetic field entirely. Therefore, a compass on the hellish planet would be as useless as one on the Moon. However, the compass may still act erratically if ...

LTT 9779 b, a scorching hot Neptune, defies death with reflective clouds, fierce winds, and traces of water vapor. This ...

James Webb found LTT 9779 b, a Neptune-like exoplanet with 2,000°C heat, extreme winds, and evaporating clouds—challenging ...