The Very Large Telescope in Chile has found, for the first time, an infant planet nestled in spiral arms of dust around a ...

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 ...

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured a "violent cosmic ...

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

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

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 ...

What can a newborn planet teach astronomers about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in ...

Captured in infrared light by the James Webb Space Telescope, the peculiar star system Apep consists of two dying stars spewing their innards at each other.

The image to the left, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows a possible planet being born around the young star HD 135344B. This star, located around 440 light-years away, is surrounded ...