Recently discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS have been captured using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large ...

A journey across 440 light-years to the young star HD 135344B surrounded by a dust ring featuring the tell-tale fingerprint ...

Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, SN 2024ggi, revealed a surprisingly olive-shaped blast when studied with ...

Traces of comets and asteroids in distant solar systems: In young planetary systems, mutual collisions between asteroids or comets generate large amounts of dust, forming a "debris disk". The disk ...

Star chemistry reveals two spiral arms and a faint bridge in the Milky Way, offering a clearer view of hidden structure in ...

Last week, four lasers were projected into the sky above the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Paranal site in Chile. The lasers successfully created an "artificial star" that astronomers can use to ...

The successful creation of a guide star above the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Paranal site in Chile with freshly installed lasers marks a new era of interferometry, according to the ESO team.

The Webb telescope has unlocked a mystery in an exotic star system located approximately 8,000 light-years from Earth. Using its mid-infrared observation capabilities, the space telescope captured the ...

When one supernova commenced, it looked like an olive — at least before it got shaken and stirred. This insight, reported in the Nov. 12 Science Advances, comes from new observations taken in the wake ...

No, not that Nancy Grace. NASA's newest space telescope, named after the agency's first Chief of Astronomy, is physically ...