On July 21, 2025, theEuropean Southern Observatory (ESO) highlighted an exciting discovery made possible by its cutting-edge ...

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Complex organic molecules that could be the precursors to the building blocks of life as we know it have been discovered in a disk of gas and dust swirling around an infant star.

Thanks to the VLT's ERIS (Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph) instrument, astronomers in Chile, where the Very Large ...

Two meteor showers — the Southern Delta Aquariids and the Alpha Capricornids —peak Tuesday night, giving stargazers a chance ...

Astronomers may have captured the rare moment of a planet forming around a young star, HD 135344B, 440 light-years away. Using the powerful ERIS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, they spotted ...

Astronomers have discovered a new baby planet, twice the size of Neptune, forming around star HD 135344B, reshaping its surrounding dust disk.

Betelgeuse, the red supergiant star in Orion’s shoulder, has been an ongoing focus of fascination for millennia, most recently when it darkened significantly, for no immediately obvious reason, in lat ...

Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have captured what they say is a direct image of a giant planet actively forming within a swirling disc of gas and dust. The report was released last July 21 ...

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Pluto reaches opposition and the Moon waxes to First Quarter as shooting stars streak through the sky this week.

Korean researchers studying topics ranging from cosmology to asteroid tracking are just beginning to immerse themselves in ...