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Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, researchers have measured supersonic winds racing around the equator of the distant gas ...

The research, yet to be peer-reviewed, sheds light on what could have changed the orbits of several planets in the solar ...

An artist's concept of NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory, a flagship space telescope for the 2030s and 2040s to search for ...

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Winds circling a gas giant more than 500 light years from Earth have been detected flowing at supersonic speeds approaching 33,000 kilometers (20,000 miles) per hour, making them the fastest air ...

In the opening to Adrian Tchaikovsky's science fiction novel Alien Clay, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, our ...

NASA's upcoming Pandora mission, poised for launch later this year, promises to revolutionize our understanding of exoplanet ...