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…
Funding is an extremely important aspect of any large-scale science project. The whims of financial controllers can greatly expand or…
We've detected thousands of exoplanets, but for the most part, nobody's ever seen them. They're really just data, and graphs…
Scientists with the ESO have detected a triple system with a black hole roughly 1,000 light-years from Earth - making…
After almost 30 years of observing a star that orbits the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy,…
Using the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers observed gas clouds that in the early Universe…
Using data from the GALACICNUCLEUS survey, a team of astronomers has determined that star formation occurred in massive bursts in…
NGC 6240 is a puzzle to astronomers. For a long time, astronomers thought the galaxy is a result of a…
Using the Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers observed Hygeia and determined it could be the smallest dwarf…