A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

Very Large Telescope observations of the galaxy revealed that there was likely a “sudden awakening of the massive black hole ...

Miguel Claro took one last look at the comet as it bid farewell to Earth for the next 80,000 years. Miguel Claro is a ...

Exoplanet Beta Pictoris b can be seen moving around its star in this 17-year timelapse created using "AI-driven ...

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

Astronomers have discovered a bright signal, embedded deep in a young disc, that is likely young planet HD 135344B still ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the very beginning of planet formation around a star beyond our Solar System.

The first direct detection of a protoplanet confirms a long-held theory while presenting new possibilities for understanding ...

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

An international team of astronomers has used the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) to carefully study the star VFTS 682 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small ...

A team led by UdeM researchers confirms a fifth potentially habitable planet around L 98-59, a red dwarf 35 light-years away.

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 ...