IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 weird and wonderful worlds across 4,300 planetary systems have been ...

Moreover, this extraterrestrial world named HD 189733 b - seems to experience "glass rain," reports Daily Express UK. NASA said: "To the human eye, this distant planet appears bright blue.

The metallic clouds that surround the planet are mostly made of silicate – the stuff that makes up sand and glass — and metals ... of metals floating aloft, raining down titanium droplets ...

Powerful winds carrying metals in a planet-wide jet stream have been discovered on a hellish world where we already know it rains molten iron. For the first time, scientists have been able to map ...

"Even the strongest hurricanes in the solar system seem calm in comparison." WASP-121 b is the definition of an "extreme" exoplanet — it's so hot that it rains droplets of liquid iron.

This alien world also rains glass, sideways, in Tempest-dwarfing winds. "Getting caught in the rain on this planet is more than an inconvenience," according to Nasa. "It’s death by a thousand cuts." ...