Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

Photoshop CS5 tutorial showing how to create a gaseous planet like Jupiter floating in deep space.

Levels of the most significant planet-warming gas in our atmosphere rose more quickly than ever previously recorded last year ...

Observations of WASP-127b, a giant gas exoplanet more than 500 light years from Earth, suggest it has phenomenally high wind speeds ...

Astronomers discovered supersonic winds on a giant gas planet located over 500 light-years from Earth. In a study released ...

The hot and ultra-hot Jupiters are prime examples of this, being gas giant planets many times the mass and size of Jupiter that are so close to their stars that they can complete an orbit in a ...

In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) per hour, but they are not the strongest in our solar system. The ...