A huge team of astronomers have combined forces to use the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) to…
Modern astronomical telescopes are extraordinarly powerful. And we keep making them more powerful. With telescopes like the Extremely Large Telescope…
New images of the asteroid Pallas (the clearest and most detailed to date) reveal that it looks like a "golf…
NGC 6240 is a puzzle to astronomers. For a long time, astronomers thought the galaxy is a result of a…
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…
370 light years away from us, a solar system is making baby planets. The star at the center of it…
New research from the Hubble Space Telescope and the ESO's Very Large Telescope is dampening some of the enthusiasm in…
Saturn is an icon. There's nothing else like it in the Solar System, and it's something even children recognize. But…
Using the Very Large Telescope, a team of ESO astronomers directly observed Beta Pictoris b over the course of four…