The farthest planet from the Sun, Neptune, is the windiest place in the solar system, with winds that whip through at speeds reaching more than 0.3 miles per second (0.5 kilometers per second).

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Earth along with some other planets in our solar system have jet streams too. They're like rivers of high-speed atmospheric ...

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.

Jan. 21, 2025 — 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 ...

Astronomers have discovered jet-stream winds reaching 20,500 miles per hour on the planet WASP-127b. In Peru, paleontologists revealed a 9-million-year-old great white shark ancestor fossil. Lonestar ...

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Jan. 7, 2025 — A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large ...

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