Current tidal theories cannot fully explain the observation of orbital decay in the system WASP-12b, a hot Jupiter whose decaying orbit will send it into its host star WASP-12 in a few million years.

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 ...

Windy planet: Artist’s visualisation of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth. (Courtesy: ESO/L Calçada) Astronomers have constructed the first “weather map” of the ...

Related: Tiny 14-inch satellite studies 'hot Jupiter' exoplanets evaporating into space In general, the doomed planet WASP-12b orbits its yellow dwarf star so closely that it almost fits an entire ...

Some exoplanets are scorching hot, while others have supersonic winds. But the latest target of the ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), WASP-121b? Well, this exoplanet has titanium rainstorms—a ...

Astronomers have uncovered the secrets of an alien atmosphere on an exoplanet far beyond our Solar ... has 3D mapped the atmosphere of planet WASP-121b, also known as Tylos. Using the European ...

The target exoplanet, WASP-121b—aka Tylos—is located in the Puppis constellation about 900 light-years from Earth. One year on Tylos is equivalent to just 30 hours on Earth, thanks to the ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered an exoplanet that defies the usual pace of time. WASP-121b, located 900 light-years away, has a year that lasts only 30 hours, 10 times faster than ...

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 ...