It's a reminder of why preserving pristine night skies remains essential for both astronomy and human wonder.

Recently discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS have been captured using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large ...

A journey across 440 light-years to the young star HD 135344B surrounded by a dust ring featuring the tell-tale fingerprint ...

Mysterious nickel gas detected in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing unexpected chemistry at enormous distances from the ...

Scientists now have observed for the first time the very early stages of a supernova, with a massive star exploding in a ...

For better images, the European Southern Observatory can combine four optical telescopes. Now, thanks to laser technology, a ...

The recent test, announced by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) today, mark a significant milestone of the GRAVITY+ project, a complex upgrade to ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) ...

ESO's original GRAVITY interferometer had operated since 2016, incorporating a cryogenically cooled Beam Combining Instrument ...

Chris Ashall, an assistant astronomer at the UH Mānoa Institute for Astronomy, was part of the global team that zeroed in on the stellar explosion known as SN 2024ggi. The supernova was first spotted ...

The explosive death of a star - a supernova - is among the most violent cosmic events, but precisely how this cataclysm looks ...

When a star explodes, it expands at high speed. What a supernova looks like immediately after its onset was therefore unknown ...

ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured an unprecedented early snapshot of supernova SN 2024ggi, revealing an elongated, ...