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

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

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

Astronomers on Tuesday announced their observations of distinct winds in separate layers circulating on the planet named WASP ...

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

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

It is so ferociously hot that the “exoplanet” features iron in the form of a gas in one layer of its atmosphere, while a jet ...

Astronomers have peered into an alien planet's atmosphere and found extreme weather unlike anything in the solar system.

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 ...

The exoplanet ' WASP-121b,' located about 880 light years away from Earth, is known as a sci-fi planet, with a shape closer to a rugby ball rather than a sphere, and the possibility of an ...

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