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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is so ferociously hot that the “exoplanet” features iron in the form of a gas in one layer of its atmosphere, while a jet ...