The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

Captured in infrared light by the James Webb Space Telescope, the peculiar star system Apep consists of two dying stars ...

Astronomers have likely witnessed a planet forming in real time, seen inside a spiral arm of the HD 135344B protoplanetary ...

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is one of the most powerful ground-based astronomical tools on the planet. Despite its name ...

Scientists have examined the interstellar invader 3I/ATLAS, finding evidence that it is packed with water that could be older than the solar system.

Scientist studying a star over 440 light-years away have spotted a planet creating intricate patterns in the star's ...

This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. These are the expanding remains of a star that exploded hundreds of years ago in a double ...

The supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5 view from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, the expanding remains of a star that exploded hundreds of years ago in a double-detonation ...

Observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) show that these are the expanding remains of a star that died with a double-detonation hundreds of years ago.

Observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) show that these are the expanding remains of a star that died with a double-detonation hundreds of years ago.

Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and its Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument, the team zoomed in on the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 located 60,000 light ...