Two teams independently discovered a super-Jupiter around a nearby Sun-like star using astrometry and direct imaging.
The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will be the world’s largest optical/near-infrared telescope. It is under construction on top of a…
The Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Cerro Paranal in northern Chile, is undoubtedly one of the premier ground-based observatories. But…
Here’s a dramatic and spectacular new view of the Cone Nebula, as seen by the Very Large Telescope (VLT). This…
This new image taken of the skies above Chile’s Atacama Desert near the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) La Silla Observatory,…
Astronomers have confirmed the presence of a THIRD exoplanet in the neighboring Proxima Centauri system!
The number of planets discovered beyond our Solar System has grown exponentially in the past twenty years, with 4,919 confirmed…
The ESO has released some stunning new images of Orion's Flame Nebula. They're from a few years ago but are…
A international team of astronomers, using observatories all over the world (and one in space), discovered 70 new rogue planets…
A huge team of astronomers have combined forces to use the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) to…