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Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

While the planets are technically always "aligned" along the same plane in our sky, seeing so many at once is a special ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet-stream of its kind ever ...