For those who have seen Star Wars, even those who may not be huge fans, there are some planets that stick out in the films.

The latest solar flare follows an M-class one, the second-highest on the scale, that occurred days earlier on June 15. It ...

Astronomers have added two more exoplanets to a growing study aimed at finding out whether rocky worlds near small, faint ...

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Credit: NASA, ESA, Quentin Changeat (ESA/STScI), Mahdi Zamani (ESA/Hubble), Public Domain An extreme exoplanet has gotten ... our understanding of how weather works—not just on Earth, but ...

This kind of multi-layered wind has rarely been seen before around an exoplanet. According to the researchers, the atmosphere is “wild and challenging” to explain using standard models. It is rare to ...

(Courtesy: ESO/L Calçada) Astronomers have constructed the first “weather map” of the exoplanet WASP-127b, and the forecast there is brutal. Winds roar around its equator at speeds as high as 33 000 ...

Scientists say they are rethinking how the weather works after creating a 3D map of an exoplanet 900 light-years away and discovering a world with jet streams fueling wild storms. WASP-121b, nicknamed ...

Using all four telescope units of ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile astronomers were able to create a 3D map of the atmosphere ... layers that create extreme weather patterns.

Astronomers revealed The mysteries of an alien atmosphere on an exoplanet far beyond our solar system are unfolding, and it's unlike anything we've ever seen before. In a first for science, an ...