Learn how researchers may have discovered an exomoon about 635 light-years away orbiting gas giant exoplanet WASP-4b. Credits ...

Supersonic winds on this exoplanet, designated WASP-127b, travel at a mind-bending 5.5 miles per second (9 kilometers per second). The speed of sound on Earth is roughly 0.21 miles per second (0. ...

This Collection highlights the results from the Early Science Release programme of the JWST telescope focused on transiting hot giant exoplanets. With its extended wavelength range and its ...

"The rate at which the planet is evaporating is utterly cataclysmic, and we are incredibly lucky to be witnessing the final hours of this dying planet." Using NASA's exoplanet-hunter TESS ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has been truly revolutionary- it is now hard to imagine what life was like without it!" The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has had an impact on astronomy since ...

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But those powerful gales are nothing compared to the supersonic winds that astronomers have just discovered on the giant exoplanet WASP-127b. Reaching up to a whopping 20,505 miles per hour—or ...

Astronomers using NASA’s state-of-the-art James Webb Space Telescope have made a groundbreaking discovery of GJ 1214 b, a planet unlike any we've seen before.

The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby "puffy" exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the alien world spins. Astronomers have spotted a "supersonic jetstream" on a ...

GÖTTINGEN, Germany — Five hundred light-years from Earth, a distant exoplanet experiences weather patterns that make Earth’s most violent hurricanes look like gentle breezes. On WASP-127b, supersonic ...

As the New Yorker magazine has its centennial year celebration in 2025, a new Netflix documentary will look at the inner workings of the prestigious and venerable publication. Marshall Curry ...

This artist’s visualisation of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth, shows its newly discovered supersonic jet winds that move around the planet’s equator.