The threat from space rock 2024 YR4 has surpassed that of Apophis, an asteroid feared by scientists 20 years ago. The danger ...

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

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NASA is using its human spaceflight experience on the space station to figure out what types of medical events happen in ...

Researchers have peered into the atmosphere of planet WASP-121b and found its climate is stranger than anyone imagined.

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

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

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The planet is tidally locked to its star, which means one side is always facing it and, for that reason, has a scorching ...

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