Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered two ...

Moving at roughly 20,505 miles per hour along the distant world's equator, it’s the fastest known jet stream that wraps around a planet ...

Scientists found winds on WASP-127b moving at 33,000 km/h. These are the fastest jetstream winds ever recorded on any planet ...

An exoplanet is a planet from a different star system. Most known exoplanets orbit stars within the Milky Way, but with the help of powerful space telescopes, scientists have discovered exoplanets ...

The exoplanet Enaiposha, or GJ 1214 b, is a hazy world orbiting a red dwarf star about 47 light-years from Earth. Previously likened to a mini-Neptune, in-depth observations obtained using JWST now ...

NASA hopes to launch Pandora this coming fall, and the completion of the spacecraft bus is a big step toward making that a ...

New observational data from the James Webb Space Telescope and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike ...

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) ...

An exoplanet about 800 light-years away is spilling its guts into space, and new observations with the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, have let astronomers read the entrails, astronomers report ...

Do habitable exoplanets exist that possess life as we know it? Scientists have pondered this longstanding question ever since ...

A comparison between the exoplanets of Kepler-51 and the Solar System. (NASA/ESA/STScI) The strange nature of the three known exoplanets orbiting Kepler-51 was established in 2019, when ...