Located 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis, WASP-121b is an ultra-hot Jupiter, a gas giant orbiting its star so ...

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

The research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.

Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar ...

Astronomers have mapped, for the first time, the three-dimensional structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, revealing ...

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

The gas giant WASP-121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

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

Tylos is a gas giant 900 light-years away - and astronomers have now mapped its astonishing atmosphere in 3D for the first ...

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

Scientists have decoded the three-dimensional atmospheric structure of exoplanet WASP-121b, discovering three distinct layers with unique chemical compositions. This hot gas planet, located 900 ...

Scientists say that the new 3D understanding of the planet represents a major breakthrough for our understanding of the ...