"A key step toward ultimately understanding which planets can stay alive, keep their water, and perhaps even, one day, host life as we know it."

The hottest giant planets in the galaxy should, in theory, have the fastest winds.

WASHINGTON: Based on the behaviour of winds on seven large and hot gas exoplanets, astronomers have obtained the strongest evidence to date that planets beyond our solar system…

This groundbreaking finding, derived from observations of wind patterns on seven large, hot gas exoplanets, significantly deepens our understanding of these distant worlds

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"A key step toward ultimately understanding which planets can stay alive, keep their water, and perhaps even, one day, host life as we know it."