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The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby "puffy" exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the ...

Astronomers discovered supersonic winds on a giant gas planet located over 500 light-years from Earth. In a study released Tuesday in Astronomy & Astrophysics astronomers who have been studying ...

For much of January and February, you have the chance to see six planets in our solar system after dark, although two — Uranus and Neptune — will be hard to see without a telescope or high-powered ...

In 2025, one might assume that all types of stars in the Milky Way have been cataloged, yet the universe continues to surprise us. In 1953, American astronomer Alan Sandage revolutionized our ...

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"This is something we haven’t seen before," Lisa Nortmann, a scientist at the University of Göttingen who led the new ...

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet-stream of its kind ever ...

Michigan State University and NASA researchers discover seven dark comets that reveal new solar system secrets.

Because the period of an object does not depend on its mass, comets’ orbital periods remain unchanged due to mass loss.