Comet A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS proved to be photogenic as it lit up the early autumn skies of the Northern Hemisphere this month.

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

An international team led by three researchers from the CNRS, the European Southern Observatory (ESO, Europe), and Charles ...

Astrophysicist Suzanna Randall explains where the elements in our body come from in this episode of "Starlight" from the European Southern Observatory. Credit: ESO Directed by: Martin Wallner, Luis ...

Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet ...

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

Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today ...

Peppered throughout the universe are balls of gas that never got promoted to stardom. In a strange twist, evidence has just ...

Two new studies show that the majority of meteorites originate from just one family of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.

"Supporting evidence includes the existence of associated dust bands, the cosmic-ray exposure ages of H chondrite meteorites, ...

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 ...

After peering through the dust and gas, scientists were able to see radiation from the Milky Way’s most hidden corners The images, captured by the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO ...