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

Astronomers have mapped the weather of a distant exoplanet for the first time, uncovering a world of extreme winds, searing heat, and unexpected atmospheric layers. The study, conducted using the Very ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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