AN ALIEN planet with traces of water and “complex weather patterns like Earth” might be seen like a good contender for a Planet B. But it would be impossible for us humans to survive ...

"Temperamental" stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

A new study finds that the rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years—and pinpoints why.

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New research shows that star activity can distort exoplanet measurements, affecting size, temperature, and atmosphere ...

Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet-stream of its kind ever measured on a planet. The discovery provides unique insights into the weather patterns of a distant world.

Astronomers discovered the exoplanet in 2016, a gas giant that’s slightly larger than Jupiter with a fraction of its mass, making it rather puffy. WASP-127b takes a little over four days to orbit ...

AN ALIEN planet with traces of water and "complex weather patterns like Earth" might be seen like a good contender for a Planet B. But it would be impossible for us humans to survive there.