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

An international team of astronomers led by the University of Galway has discovered the likely site of a new planet in ...

This might sound like an obvious thing for a professional stargazer to say. But astrophysicist Federica Bianco was reacting ...

The astronomers now hope to be able to take an actual image of the young planet using the sensitivity of JWST.

The latest cosmic puzzle for scientists comes from the constellation Leo, roughly 240 lightyears from Earth. Astronomers, ...

New images of a young star, 2MASSJ1612, could have captured the birth of a giant gas planet larger than Jupiter.

After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion ...

Whatever the origin story, TOI-6894b is leading the ranks of other known gas giants orbiting small and faint stars that ...

This eye-catching Picture of the Week was captured from ESO’s Paranal Observatory. Home to ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the observatory sits proudly atop the 2635-metre-high Cerro Paranal in ...

This means observers see it as it was when the Universe was less than 300 million years old, about 2% of its present age, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) said. Researchers previously ...

For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful cosmic backdrop.