A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

The Sh2-284 nebula has been imaged VLT Survey Telescope. The "region of dust and gas that’s teeming with young stars, located ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is the pre-eminent intergovernmental science and technology organisation in astronomy. It carries out an ambitious programme focused on the design ...

An international team of astronomers led by the University of Galway has discovered the likely site of a new planet in ...

This means observers see it as it was when the Universe was less than 300 million years old, about 2% of its present age, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) said. Researchers previously ...

The latest cosmic puzzle for scientists comes from the constellation Leo, roughly 240 lightyears from Earth. Astronomers, ...

The likely site of a new “gas giant planet” up to several times the mass of Jupiter, has been discovered by an international ...

Spavone, E. Iodice A galaxy is robbed of its gas and stars in a new image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The spiral galaxy, called NGC 3312, lies within a large cluster known as ...

An international team of astronomers, led by University of Galway, has discovered the likely site of a new planet in ...

For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful cosmic backdrop.

"Imagine you’ve been observing a distant galaxy for years, and it always seemed calm and inactive," Paula Sánchez Sáez, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory said in a statement ...

The red supergiant star is about 2,000 times larger than the sun. Astronomers have taken a close-up photo of a star outside our own galaxy, the Milky Way, for the first time, the European Southern ...