It's a reminder of why preserving pristine night skies remains essential for both astronomy and human wonder.

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

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

Scientists now have observed for the first time the very early stages of a supernova, with a massive star exploding in a ...

For better images, the European Southern Observatory can combine four optical telescopes. Now, thanks to laser technology, a ...

Chris Ashall, an assistant astronomer at the UH Mānoa Institute for Astronomy, was part of the global team that zeroed in on the stellar explosion known as SN 2024ggi. The supernova was first spotted ...

The recent test, announced by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) today, mark a significant milestone of the GRAVITY+ project, a complex upgrade to ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) ...

ESO's original GRAVITY interferometer had operated since 2016, incorporating a cryogenically cooled Beam Combining Instrument ...

When a star explodes, it expands at high speed. What a supernova looks like immediately after its onset was therefore unknown ...

The explosive death of a star - a supernova - is among the most violent cosmic events, but precisely how this cataclysm looks ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Gamma-ray bursts are a relatively new discovery in space science. The first burst was discovered in ...

An ancient comet discovered in our solar system this summer is offering a rare opportunity to learn more about distant planetary systems far beyond the reach of any spacecraft, researchers say. The ...