Work has begun on the sixth and seventh mirror segments for the Giant Magellan Telescope, which will begin studying the…
In the vein of “go big or go home,” the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has launched a stunning new website…
By combining two exoplanet detection methods for the first time ever, the GRAVITY collaboration has confirmed the existence of a…
Using the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers observed gas clouds that in the early Universe…
Why report on an asteroid that has no chance of hitting Earth? Because this asteroid, known as 2006 QV89, has…
Using the Very Large Telescope, a team of ESO scientists took some stunningly clear images of a double asteroid that…
We've finally got our first optical look at an exoplanet and its atmosphere, and boy is it a strange place.…
2,000 light years away, in the Orion constellation, lurks an eerie looking creature, made of glowing gas lit up by…
Saturn is an icon. There's nothing else like it in the Solar System, and it's something even children recognize. But…
An international team of astronomers recently located a triple star system in our galaxy that will someday unleash a massive…