Using the Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers observed Hygeia and determined it could be the smallest dwarf…
Astronomers have spotted Strontium in the aftermath of a collision between two neutron stars. This is the first time a…
Why report on an asteroid that has no chance of hitting Earth? Because this asteroid, known as 2006 QV89, has…
Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to us, at 4.37 light-years (about 25 trillion miles) away. In 2016, astronomers…
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…
Our newest planet-hunting telescope is up and running at the ESO's Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert in Chile. SPECULOOS,…
An international team of astronomers recently located a triple star system in our galaxy that will someday unleash a massive…
The Red Dots and CARMENES projects recently announced the discovery of a super-Earth around Barnard's Star, making it the second-closest…