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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Astronomers have unlocked a new way to explore alien worlds by mapping the 3D structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the ...

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

Located 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis, WASP-121b is an ultra-hot Jupiter, a gas giant orbiting its star so closely that a year lasts just 30 Earth hours. One side of the planet is ...

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

Astronomers have mapped the 3D structure of an alien planet's atmosphere for the first time, revealing a layered system of extreme winds.