EIRSAT-1, the student-built satellite from University College Dublin (UCD) that was launched into space last December, ...

Astronomers resolve longstanding mystery of Gliese 229B's dimness, despite its considerable mass. A Caltech-led team ...

Hundreds of papers have been written about the first known brown dwarf, Gliese 229B, since its discovery by Caltech ...

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) VISTA telescope has been the eye through which experts have observed the heart of our galaxy for over 13 years. Tipping the scales at a whopping 500 ...

Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard’s star, the closest single star to our Sun. On this ...

On. Oct. 5, 1962, the European Southern Observatory was born! The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is an intergovernmental research organization made up of 16 nations that work together to study ...

Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile.

Researchers used the European Southern Observatory (ESO)’s VISTA telescope to collect 500 terabytes of data, showing the nebulae, globular clusters, stars, planets, brown dwarfs, and other ...

Name: Nabta Playa What it is: An ancient stone circle in the Egyptian desert that may be the oldest known astronomical observatory Where it is from: An desert area of southern Egypt, about 175 ...

For the first time ever, a naturalization ceremony will be held on the Hollywood Sign Terrace at the Griffith Observatory ... Get top local stories in Southern California delivered to you ...