The Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument captured unprecedented images of 51 dusty rings shaping young planetary systems.

After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

There is a new method to detect and map spots on stars by "using observations from NASA missions of orbiting planets." ...

After cataloging thousands of worlds beyond our solar system, astronomers are now closing in on a far rarer prize: a moon ...

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

The final integration of the telescope's major observatory components took place on Nov. 25 inside NASA's Goddard Space ...

What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is ...

Astronomers have created a groundbreaking discovery of images showing debris disks in an extensive range of exoplanetary ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...

Using direct imaging, astronomers have found a brown dwarf that could help test technology for taking snapshots of Earthlike ...

Using the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have created an extraordinary set of images showing debris disks in a wide ...