Supersonic winds on this exoplanet, designated WASP-127b, travel at a mind-bending 5.5 miles per second (9 kilometers per second). The speed of sound on Earth is roughly 0.21 miles per second (0. ...

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Astronomers using NASA’s state-of-the-art James Webb Space Telescope have made a groundbreaking discovery of GJ 1214 b, a planet unlike any we've seen before.

The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby "puffy" exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the alien world spins. Astronomers have spotted a "supersonic jetstream" on a ...

This artist’s visualisation of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth, shows its newly discovered supersonic jet winds that move around the planet’s equator.

An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never seen before. The exoplanet Enaiposha, or GJ 1214 b, is a hazy world ...

GÖTTINGEN, Germany — Five hundred light-years from Earth, a distant exoplanet experiences weather patterns that make Earth’s most violent hurricanes look like gentle breezes. On WASP-127b, supersonic ...

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But those powerful gales are nothing compared to the supersonic winds that astronomers have just discovered on the giant exoplanet WASP-127b. Reaching up to a whopping 20,505 miles per hour—or ...

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