In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...

But of these planets, which is nearest to the sun? Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, ...

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have characterized the atmosphere ... hot Neptune desert—a region of parameter space at high insolation fluxes and intermediate planet ...

On the other hand, the presence of water and methane provide evidence of a more compact, over-saturated atmosphere. It speaks to long-running controversies in the literature over whether sub-Neptune’s ...

Astronomers discovered supersonic winds on a giant gas planet located over 500 light-years from Earth. In a study released ...

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An alignment of six planets will dazzle in January 2025. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will align in the ...

Two papers showed these intriguing signals, but the team stresses that there are currently many uncertainties to confirming ...

An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned ... radius that put it somewhere between Earth and Neptune. Subsequent observations revealed a substantial ...

The comparable high-altitude winds on Neptune reach about 1,200 miles ... The researchers tracked the speed of molecules in the planet's atmosphere using an instrument called CRIRES+ on the ...