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Imagine a lava planet, with rocks raining down and wind howling at thousands of miles per hour. In the hunt for an Earth-like planet outside our solar system, scientists use clues from exoplanets ...
Planet WASP-121 b has a surface temperature of 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which researchers predict would lead to some wild weather phenomena.
Astronomers have mapped the weather on a planet hundreds of light years away, and found that it always has clear skies on the side facing its sun. This distant exoplanet, named WASP-43 b, is a hot ...
"This planet’s atmosphere behaves in ways that challenge our understanding of how weather works — not just on Earth, but on all planets. It feels like something out of science fiction," Julia ...
You may want to pack goggles and sunscreen before you visit HAT-P-7b, based on the first convincing report of weather on an exoplanet.
Scientists have just mapped the weather of a very windy exoplanet. Exoplanet HD 189733b, which sits about 60 light years away from Earth, has wind speeds of up to 5,400 miles per hour.