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

An unusual elliptical galaxy with a history of absorbing smaller galaxies appears to be approaching its next target.

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

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

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

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

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

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

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...

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

A team of international astronomers has discovered something that could reshape our understanding of outer space.

According to the scientists on the team, the discovery was made by ROAST, a German-operated satellite telescope, and the ...