Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have provided new clues about how the exoplanet WASP-121b has formed and where it might have originated in the disk of gas and dust around its ...

An artist's conception of a gas giant world (the large planet on the right) in another solar system. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / T. Pyle (SSC) The distant world WASP-121b is so hot that it hosts ...

What can a 3D map of an exoplanet’s atmosphere teach scientists about its weather patterns? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

How do ultra-hot Jupiters form and evolve? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the origins of WASP-121b, which is an ...

Extreme heating and tidal locking results in fierce cyclones and powerful storms in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-121b. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

WASP-121b may have been born in a frozen zone and later migrated into its current inferno-like orbit. A surprise discovery of methane in the wrong place suggests intense vertical winds are reshaping ...

This artistic impression depicts the stage at which WASP-121b accumulated most of its gas, as inferred from the latest results. The illustration suggests that the forming planet had cleared its ...