Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system ...

Supersonic winds on this exoplanet, designated WASP-127b, travel at a mind-bending 5.5 miles per second (9 kilometers per second). The speed of sound on Earth is roughly 0.21 miles per second (0. ...

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

The faraway world, a gas giant called WASP-127b that was discovered in 2016 ... following a slightly skewed orbit. The exoplanet is also likely tidally locked to its star the same way the moon ...

This artist’s visualisation of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth, shows its newly discovered supersonic jet winds that move around the planet’s equator.

Do weather patterns on exoplanets mimic those on Earth? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of researchers explored unique ...

Even if the different regions of the exoplanet cannot be resolved visually, it is possible to determine the speeds at which the matter is moving there. In the case of WASP-127b, two neighboring ...

WASP-127b, a 'hot Jupiter' exoplanet, exhibits unprecedented supersonic winds, reaching 20,500 mph. Located 520 light-years away, it orbits closely to a sun-like star. The intense irradiation drives ...

In the end, the researchers announced the discovery of a gas giants exoplanet with a 5-year orbital period while determining the mass of a super-Earth (WASP-132c), the latter of which orbits interior ...

WASP-166 b is about seven times larger and 32 times more massive than the Earth. It orbits its host star every 5.44 days, at a distance of approximately 0.067 AU from it.

The faraway world, a gas giant called WASP-127b that was discovered in 2016, orbits a star 520 light-years from Earth. It zips around its host star in just four days, following a slightly skewed orbit ...