Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...

For the first time, scientists have developed a 3D map of an atmosphere belonging to a planet outside our solar system. Attached to a particularly mysterious alien world, the newly charted atmosphere ...

Astronomers have mapped the weather of a distant exoplanet for the first time, uncovering a world of extreme winds, searing ...

Thirty years ago, scientists were thrilled just to detect exoplanets. Then they learned to measure their temperatures, wind speeds, and chemical makeup. Now, for the first time ever, astrophysicists ...

Tylos (or WASP-121b) is a gaseous, giant exoplanet located some 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. Using the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), scientists have ...