Staff at the European Southern Observatory have a system to clean the La Silla Observatory's delicate mirrors without ...

The Sh2-284 nebula has been imaged VLT Survey Telescope. The "region of dust and gas that’s teeming with young stars, located ...

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

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

An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Galway, has discovered the likely site of a new planet in formation, most likely a gas giant planet up to a few times the mass of Jupiter ...

A team of international astronomers has uncovered what may be a gas giant planet forming around a distant young star. Using ...

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

This artist’s illustration provided by the European Southern Observatory shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs, celestial objects that are lighter than stars, but heavier than gas ...

The European Commission recently established ... very high-energy gamma-ray astronomy,” according to the European Southern Observatory. On February 13, the ERIC Council gave the go-ahead for ...

This is the conclusion of a study, published in the journal Nature, undertaken using the European Southern Observatory (ESO)'s Very Large Telescope (VLT), in Chile's Atacama Desert. The planet ...

A massive $10 billion renewable energy complex proposed just a few miles from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile could severely disrupt observations with increased ...