"Getting caught in the rain on this planet is more than an inconvenience," according to Nasa. "It’s death by a thousand cuts." Nasa's eagle-eyed Kepler Space Telescope spotted TrES-2b - the ...

It is a place of true extremes because of being tidally locked, meaning one side always ... across the planet to its nightside, where they condense and fall as liquid metal rain.

"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.

Astronomers have spotted the shiniest known planet in the Milky Way, and it has metal clouds that appear to be raining down titanium droplets. Exoplanet LTT9779 b, which orbits a star about 262 ...

Astronomers have discovered exoplanets shaped like a rugby ball, or where it rains gems ... meaning one side of the planet always faces its star, while the other side always faces out into ...

Imagine a place where it rains diamonds; not water, not snow, actual diamonds falling from the sky! It sounds like a fantasy story, but scientists believe this happens on planets like Neptune and ...

WASP-121 b is the definition of an "extreme" exoplanet — it's so hot that it rains droplets of liquid iron. Now, astronomers have discovered that this planet, located around 900 light-years away ...