Astronomers have release a cosmic picture taken by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), which sits atop a mountain in Chile. It ...

The Federative Republic of Brazil has yesterday signed the formal accession agreement paving the way for it to become a Member State of the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Following government ...

Brunswick, Maine, resident Grant Tremblay thinks in terms of light years. It’s a natural habit: He has spent years studying astronomical phenomena using sophisticated space telescopes like NASA’s ...

(ESO) and thereby gaining access to some of the most advanced telescope facilities in the world a press briefing will be held at the Royal Observatory Greenwich (ROG), London on Monday 8th July at ...

Planets beyond our solar system can have magnetic fields similar to those closer to home, astronomers said Tuesday after ...

A team of astronomers has found the strongest evidence yet that some planets outside our solar system may be magnetic. Using ...

An image of the Sculptor Galaxy created using images from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Credit: ESO / E. Congiu et al. It’s not every day we get to see a visual of the ...

The galaxy appears to be losing its gas through a process known as ram pressure stripping. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...

Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard’s star, the closest single star to our Sun. On this newly ...

This image illustrates the CTAO's southern hemisphere site or CTAO-South. The array is located less than 10 km southeast of the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) existing Paranal Observatory in ...