It’s hot. Seriously hot. Not creeping-into-the-90s-crank-up-the-AC hot: nearly-8,000-degrees-Fahrenheit hot. KELT-9b is an exoplanet, but its dayside temp beats most stars in our galaxy — and comes ...

Astronomers have found the hottest known exoplanet, a world where temperatures exceed those on the surface of most stars. The Jupiter-like planet, known as KELT-9b, zips around its hot host star once ...

For the first time ever, astronomers have found iron and titanium in the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system. The exoplanet, named KELT-9b, is the hottest alien world ever discovered. The ...

NASA researchers and citizen scientists have been flooding our imaginations lately with thousands of newly discovered exoplanets, including a whole boatload of candidates for habitable planets, as in ...

Last year, astronomers made an intriguing discovery: a scorching planet, hotter than any other known to man, where dayside temperatures might exceed 4,000 Kelvin (6,740 degrees Fahrenheit). That would ...

An exoplanet 650 light years away called KELT-9b reaches temperatures of about 7,800˚F. It's this intense heat that led to the discovery of iron and titanium atoms in the atmosphere. On other ...

Scientists recently discovered an extremely hot planet with average surface temperatures hotter than most stars -- including our own. Daytime temperatures on exoplanet KELT-9b, a gas giant nearly ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For the first time ever, astronomers have found iron and titanium in the atmosphere of a planet ...

Astronomers have found the hottest known exoplanet, a world where temperatures exceed those on the surface of most stars. The Jupiter-like planet, known as KELT-9b, zips around its hot host star once ...

Astronomers have found the hottest known exoplanet, a world where temperatures exceed those on the surface of most stars. The Jupiter-like planet, known as KELT-9b, zips around its hot host star once ...