Beneath a breathtaking full Moon, construction on the world’s largest optical and infrared telescope—the ELT—progresses in ...

In addition to the exoplanet’s polar orbit, the brown dwarf pair itself is extraordinarily rare. They form an eclipsing ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

Large regions in northern, southern, and central-western Africa, as well as northern Madagascar, are experiencing severe ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

The massive dome measures 305 feet (93 meters) in diameter, or about the size of a football field and stands 263 feet (80 ...

Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

"If this initiative is focused on astronomical observation, it should be noted that, according to current regulations, ...

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a black hole drifting alone in space—without a companion star ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare planet orbiting at a 90-degree angle around two brown dwarfs—marking the first evidence of ...

The world's darkest and clearest skies exist over the Atacama desert in Chile. The astronomical community, led by the ...

The surprise discovery was made using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT). Several planets orbiting two stars at once, like the fictional Star Wars world Tatooine ...