For the first time, scientists have developed a 3D map of an atmosphere ... from WASP-121b's atmosphere but found to have been hiding in the planet's lower atmospheric layers.

According to a new paper published in the journal Nature, astronomers have mapped the 3D structure of the layered atmosphere of one ... crop of global circulation models, per the authors.

For the first time, scientists have traced the winds in separate layers of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, uncovering a vertical circulation pattern that defies conventional models. The research ...

WASHINGTON : Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system, revealing three layers like a wedding cake on a ...

The jet stream, spanning half of the planet, can speed up and violently shake the atmosphere’s highest layers as it moves through Tylos’s day-side. “Even the strongest hurricanes in the ...

Tylos (or WASP-121b) is a gaseous, giant exoplanet located some 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. Using the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), scientists ...