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

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 ...

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

One of the gamma-ray bursts has been confirmed by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) ground and space telescope network to emanate from 3 billion light years away—likely a merger of two ...

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 ...

Using the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope, the team monitored the central regions of our Galaxy over more than 13 years. At 500 terabytes of data, this is the largest observational ...

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have released the largest infrared map of the Milky Way ever. The enormous dataset contains millions of new objects, and the researchers expect to ...

Scientists have uncovered that over 70 percent of meteorites reaching Earth come from just three asteroid families in the ...

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 VISTA ... NASA's Hubble Finds That a Black Hole Beam Promotes Stellar Eruptions Sep. 26, 2024 — In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA's Hubble ...