A new study shows that black holes consume gas which creates an outburst that cools nearby gas for the black hole to consume ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

HH 30, a fascinating Herbig-Haro object, serves as a cosmic laboratory for studying star formation and planetary evolution.

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

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

Exoplanet exploration has taken off in recent years, with over 5,500 being discovered so far. Some have even been in the ...

The ELT, under construction near Mount Armazones, is set to be the world’s largest visible-light telescope. It will feature a 39.3-meter-wide mirror and is expected to expand our understanding ...

Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile, scientists have detected supersonic jetstream winds hurtling around the planet’s equator at astonishing speeds of ...

(Uranus and Neptune are there too, but a telescope is needed to see them.) Advert "[...] All month after dark, you’ll find Venus and Saturn in the southwest for the first couple of hours, while ...

By tracking the speed of molecules in the atmosphere with the CRIRES+ instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, researchers found that one side of the planet’s atmosphere is moving towards us ...

The discovery was made using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) in Chile and provides unique insights into the weather patterns of a distant world. Tornados ...