Scientists have discovered powerful winds carrying metals in a massive jet stream on a hellish exoplanet in outerspace where it already rains molten iron. For the first time, researchers have ...

"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.

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's football-shaped and rains gems. Now, astronomers leveraged ... They found never-before-seen activity. "This planet’s atmosphere behaves in ways that challenge our understanding of how ...

metals vaporize into clouds and are swept across the planet by extreme winds. Once they reach the dark side, they cool and fall as liquid metal rain. Using the European Southern Observatory's Very ...