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: ...

"NASA has briefed ESA about the Budget Request, and while some questions still remain about the full repercussions, follow-up ...

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 ...

The massive dome measures 305 feet (93 meters) in diameter, or about the size of a football field and stands 263 feet (80 ...

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 ...

The surprise discovery was made using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT). Several planets orbiting two stars at once, like the fictional Star Wars world Tatooine ...