While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) seen above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile on Jan. 21, 2025. ESO's Very Large Telescope sits atop ...

A stellar nursery hidden in Scorpius, the Dark Tower is a glowing, wind-sculpted cloud of gas shaped by young stars’ ...

Very Large Telescope observations of the galaxy revealed that there was likely a “sudden awakening of the massive black hole at its core,” according to the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Credit; ...

Software engineers have been hard at work to establish a common language for a global conversation. The topic—revealing the ...

Chile's pristine, dark desert skies, world-renowned for astronomy, are at risk of being outshined by urban and industrial ...

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) soared through the starry skies above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory in Chile, home to the Very Large Telescope and future site of the ...

Planets originate from protoplanetary disks, circulating disks of gas and dust that develop around young stars, a recent ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

A stronomers using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have imaged a filament of the ...

The protoplanetary disk is actually a Herbig-Haro object dubbed HH 30. Such objects are glowing regions in space that contain ...