Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star ...

The European Southern Observatory has captured the clearest images yet of the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS as it moves inward through the solar system.

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. These are the expanding ...

The space-based observatory has revolutionized the way we see space, and it can now add another remarkable accomplishment to ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

Nestled inside a planetary ring 110 light-years from Earth, a planet spotted by the James Webb telescope is the lightest exoplanet ever detected.

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 James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...