The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

Scientists observed the earliest signs of a new solar system forming around HOPS-315, revealing how planets emerge from dust ...

Astronomers have just solved a long-standing mystery about a rare, rapidly spinning neutron star known as PSR J1023+0038.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

A hidden planet up to 10 times the size of Jupiter was found in the disc around MP Mus, thanks to new data from ALMA and Gaia ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO, also more formally the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere) is an intergovernmental research organisation for ...

With a remarkable observational campaign that involved 12 telescopes both on the ground and in space, including three European Southern Observatory (ESO) facilities, astronomers have uncovered the ...

Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, scientists studied the planet's atmosphere from 520 light-years away.

“Transitional millisecond pulsars are cosmic laboratories, helping us understand how neutron stars evolve in binary systems,” ...

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 Hydra I. Located over ...

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 ...

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 ...