If the discovery is confirmed, this will be the fastest extrasolar planet, "exoplanet," system ever seen. "We think this is a so-called super-Neptune world orbiting a low-mass star at a distance ...

WASP-121 b is the definition of an "extreme" exoplanet — it's so hot that it rains droplets of liquid iron. Now, astronomers have discovered that this planet, located around 900 light-years away ...

Scientists say they are rethinking how the weather works after creating a 3D map of an exoplanet 900 light-years ... ASTRONOMERS DISCOVER LARGEST SUPERSTRUCTURE IN COSMOS Tylos rotates ...

a spectroscopic instrument called ESPRESSO that can process light collected from the four largest VLT telescope units into one signal. The target exoplanet, WASP-121b—aka Tylos—is located in ...

South Africa has taken one giant leap into exoplanet discovery capabilities and astronomical research with the launch of the PRime-focus Infrared Microlensing Experiment (Prime) telescope. This is the ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory released this update on researchers' use of high performance computing resources to ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest, most powerful and most complex telescope ever launched ...