A TERRIFYING alien planet that "rains glass" lurks just 64.5 lightyears from Earth. Described as a "nightmare world" by Nasa, the giant exoplanet has staggeringly fast winds that reach up to 5,400mph.
A vast alien planet has blistering winds racing around its equator at nearly 30 times the speed of sound on Earth. Lisa Nortmann at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and her colleagues used ...
Those, however, are a mere breeze compared to the jet-stream winds on a planet called WASP-127b. Astronomers have detected winds howling at about 20,500 miles (33,000 km) per hour on this large ...
The discovery sets a new record for the fastest jet stream winds observed on any planet. Located 520 light-years from Earth, in a tight orbit around a star similar to our sun, WASP-127b is a ...