Image an alien planet where savage winds rip through the atmosphere carrying molten iron and titanium particles. Such a ...

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

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

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

Located around 900 light-years away in the Puppis constellation, Tylos orbits its parent star at an absurdly close distance, ...

"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 ...

Astronomers have achieved a breakthrough in planetary science, revealing the complex weather of a distant gas giant with ...

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

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

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

Astronomers have discovered by looking through an exoplanet's atmosphere and mapping its 3D structure for the first time ...