To put the wind speeds into perspective, the fastest winds ever observed in our solar system are on Neptune, at a speed of ...

An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never ...

Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new discoveries about an extreme form of planetary destruction: apparently ...

Astronomers recorded extreme winds of 33,000 kph on exoplanet WASP-127b, a 'hot Jupiter' with low density orbiting close to its star. Advanced atmosph ...

Beyond our solar system, a bizarre world is raging with unimaginable winds. WASP-127b is a gas giant located over 500 ...

Explore the extraordinary weather phenomena on WASP-127b, where supersonic winds reach speeds of 33,000 kilometers per hour.

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.

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

At around 620 miles high, these subsurface “islands of rock” stand more than 100 times higher than Mount Everest’s summit of around 5.5 miles, ...

An eruption that produced one of the largest impacts on climate over the past 250 years has finally been matched with a volcano.

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the Pacific ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.