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) ...

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

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have characterized the atmosphere ... hot Neptune desert—a region of parameter space at high insolation fluxes and intermediate planet ...

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

On the other hand, the presence of water and methane provide evidence of a more compact, over-saturated atmosphere. It speaks to long-running controversies in the literature over whether sub-Neptune’s ...

Starting Monday, Feb. 3, the day after Groundhog Day, you should be able to see another planetary parade in the night sky, this time joined by the crescent moon. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune ...

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An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned ... radius that put it somewhere between Earth and Neptune. Subsequent observations revealed a substantial ...

Two papers showed these intriguing signals, but the team stresses that there are currently many uncertainties to confirming ...