The gas giant WASP-121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

The research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.

A rocky planet less than half the mass of Earth seems to have an atmosphere made almost entirely of sulphur dioxide – this ...

NASA's upcoming Pandora mission will complement the James Webb Space Telescope by making it easier to detect water in the ...

THE search for alien life across our Solar System and beyond has so far kicked up nothing intelligent – let alone microbial. But researchers now believe extraterrestrials could be lurking ...

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