In Chile's Atacama Desert, the European Southern Observatory is constructing the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), poised to ...

On a volcanic island under some of the darkest skies on Earth, I rediscovered the night sky and came home with a new view of our universe.

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

Captured by the VST, NGC 3640 reveals a turbulent history of cosmic cannibalism, but its current companion, NGC 3641, remains ...

The brilliant blue-white star lighting up the red nebula Sh2-46 hints at a dynamic and possibly fleeting encounter that could ...

Beneath Chile’s brilliant skies, the ELT grows—an engineering giant ready to capture the secrets of the universe with the ...

NASA has released three new pieces of cosmic sound that are associated with the densest and darkest members of our universe: ...

In addition to the exoplanet’s polar orbit, the brown dwarf pair itself is extraordinarily rare. They form an eclipsing ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout the solar system, on every planet and moon that has enough of an ...

Fortunately, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has an instrument—the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE)—that enabled astronomers to split Neptune’s reflected ...