Scientists uncover real-life ‘hell’ planet where rain burns hotter than fire. Story by Erin Rose Humphrey & Ella Kipling • 1w.

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 ...

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 ...

The planet is believed to have frequent rains, but the material falling from the skies isn’t water… it’s liquid iron. The planet is known as WASP-76b, and it’s totally wild.

It also doesn't help that the rain is shards of molten glass, making for one of the worst thunderstorms imaginable. Despite it basically being hell in planet form, HD 189733 b is an important ...