The CRIRES+ instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has been used to measure the supersonic jet winds on gas giant exoplanet WASP-127b. Credit: ESO ...

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dense and dazzling array of blazing stars that form globular cluster ESO ...

An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact ...

Captured just days after its discovery, the images offer the clearest view yet of this rare visitor from beyond our solar system.

The transforming exoplanet that was observed by the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak National Observatory has a strangely elongated orbit. Credit: Images and ...

On July 1, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope, located in northern Chile, ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Researchers stitched together hundreds of images from the Very Large Telescope to form a breathtaking photo of a nearby galaxy.

A monster exoplanet as big as 10 times the size of Jupiter has emerged from the stellar gas and dust surrounding a young star ...

What methods can astronomers use to identify exoplanets orbiting within a young exoplanetary system’s disc of dust and gas ...

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet – between three and ten times the size of Jupiter – hiding in the swirling disc ...

Supernovae like these are very luminous and referred to as "standard candles" in astronomy. As fixed points, they are used to ...