Meet Tylos: a gas giant 900 light years away and with a climate never seen before on any planet known to scientists.

Last year, astronomers discovered an unusual Earth-size exoplanet they believe has a hemisphere of molten lava, with its ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...

Researchers have peered into the atmosphere of planet WASP-121b and found its climate is stranger than anyone imagined.

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

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

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

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...

Astronomers have discovered a powerful jet stream raging through the atmosphere of an ultra-hot Jupiter exoplanet ravaged by ...

Tylos (or WASP-121b) is a gaseous, giant exoplanet located some 900 light-years away. Astronomers were able to differentiate ...

Many scientists have long thought that developing planets should resemble the swirling disk of gas and dust that births them.