The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.

The Sh2-46 nebula has been captured by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. The nebula is ...

Image of the irregular dwarf galaxy Sextans A, located at a distance of about 4 million light years from us, towards the edge of the Local Group, captured by the VST (VLT Survey Telescope), an Italian ...

Observations from global observatories, including the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), ...

Astronomers have captured something extraordinary: the first-ever direct photo of a baby planet growing inside a dusty ring ...

Astronomers have used observatories around the world, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO ...

Astronomers have spotted a cosmic explosion of high-energy gamma-rays unlike any ever seen before. The gamma-ray burst (GRB) ...

The burst seems to have been caused by a highly extraordinary event, but scientists don’t yet know exactly what that could be ...

What new methods can be employed to help astronomers distinguish the light from an exoplanet and its host star so the ...

But over the summer, 3I/ATLAS, has plunged toward the inner solar system—and the fireworks show has begun in earnest. When ...

Today marks the 10th anniversary since First Light with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), the most advanced optical telescope in the world. Since then, the VLT has evolved into a unique suite of four ...

Astronomers have used observatories around the world, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO ...