We've detected thousands of exoplanets, but for the most part, nobody's ever seen them. They're really just data, and graphs…
The discovery of a bright galaxy that existed 13 billion years ago is shedding light on a period known own…
Our closest stellar neighbour is Proxima Centauri, a small red dwarf star about 4.2 light years away from us. It's…
Brown dwarfs are in a tough spot. Not quite a star, not quite a planet, they occupy a place between…
After almost 30 years of observing a star that orbits the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy,…
A new study by a team using data from the Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument, may have caught a direct…
Imagine a planet where it rained iron. Sounds impossible. But on one distant exoplanet, which is tidally locked to its…
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…
Using the Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers observed Hygeia and determined it could be the smallest dwarf…