the researchers write that they successfully used the VLT to create a 3D map of WASP-121b's atmosphere, allowing them to see how gas moves about the planet. While a jet stream half the size of ...

Exoplanet Tylos, also known as WASP 121-b, is an ultra-hot Jupiter ... being able to map it in three dimensions. The planet is tidally locked to its star, which means one side is always ...

SEE ALSO: Planets, ranked The composition of WASP-103b is of particular interest for two primary reasons. First, the exoplanet appears to be unusually bloated, which could tell us more about gas ...

Astronomers have nabbed a rare opportunity to watch a planet shrink in real-time. The Jupiter-sized planet, located 160 light years away, is orbiting its host star so closely that the star is ...

Khalid Barkaoui, a postdoctoral researcher at ULiege’s EXOTIC Laboratory, explains that WASP-193b is the second least dense planet discovered, only surpassed by Kepler-51d, which is ...