New research led by a scientist at IPAC—a science and data center for astrophysics and planetary science at Caltech—studying the hot Jupiter CoRoT-2 b has settled on one of the three leading hypotheses explaining why its atmosphere has a hot spot in the opposite direction from that seen on all ot...
Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-06-oddball-exoplanet-hot-jupiter.html)