At the Paranal Observatory, the UT4 telescope doesn't just stargaze—it actively creates its own stars using powerful lasers ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

working with one colleague from the University of St Andrews' Center for Exoplanet Science and another from the European Southern Observatory, has confirmed the existence of a lone black hole.