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The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...
Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds ...
In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has provided groundbreaking insights into a new type of exoplanet, fundamentally different ...
Six planets are lining up in a row from our Earthly view of the cosmos, in a spectacle that'll be visible in January through ...
Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet-stream of its kind ever ...