Jun 4, 2025 by News Staff

The discovery of TOI-6894b — an exoplanet around 86% the size of Jupiter in orbit around a 0.2-solar-mass red dwarf — highlights the need for...

May 6, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile have captured a stunning new image of the nebula Gum 80. This VST image...

Apr 23, 2025 by News Staff

The newly-discovered planet orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around 2MASS J15104786-2818174 (hereafter 2M1510), an eclipsing binary composed of two equal-mass...

Apr 8, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the MUSE instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected supermassive black hole-driven winds in the barred spiral galaxy...

Mar 11, 2025 by News Staff

For a century, astronomers have been studying Barnard’s star in the hope of finding planets around it. First discovered by E.E. Barnard at Yerkes Observatory...

Feb 27, 2025 by News Staff

A near-Earth asteroid called 2024 YR4 has been closely monitored in the past couple of months as its odds of impacting Earth in 2032 rose to around 3%....

Feb 18, 2025 by News Staff

Ultrahot Jupiters, an extreme class of planets not found in our Solar System, provide a unique window into atmospheric processes. Using four telescope...

Feb 18, 2025 by Natali Anderson

A giant elliptical galaxy called NGC 3640 has engulfed several smaller galaxies in the past, according to an analysis of data from ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope...

Feb 13, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) have created a stunning 80-million-pixel image of the star cluster...

Jan 28, 2025 by Natali Anderson

One of these exoplanets, HD 20794d, is likely to be a rocky planet in the habitable zone of its parent star, the G-dwarf HD 20794. This image shows the...

Jan 28, 2025 by News Staff

New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESO’s Very Large Telescope provide evidence that outbursts from supermassive black holes can help...

Jan 13, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers have long thought that the upper clouds of Jupiter, which create the planet’s iconic pale brown belts, are made of frozen ammonia. But a...

Dec 17, 2024 by News Staff

Using data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and Keck telescope, astronomers have discovered a binary star system in the S star cluster close to...

Nov 21, 2024 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) have captured a zoomed-in image of the dust-enshrouded red supergiant star WOH G64. This...

Nov 5, 2024 by News Staff

Astronomers using the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile have taked a 283-million-pixel image of the Dark Wolf Nebula. This image,...

Oct 29, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

NGC 1386 is a spiral galaxy located 53 million light-years away in the constellation of Eridanus. This image of NGC 1386 combines data from VST and ALMA....

Oct 17, 2024 by News Staff

Gliese 229B was the first known brown dwarf, discovered in 1995. In new research, astronomers observed Gliese 229 B with the GRAVITY interferometer...

Oct 15, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Gum 39 is one of several nebulae in a vast stellar nursery called the Running Chicken Nebula (IC 2944), which is located about 6,500 light-years away in...

Oct 14, 2024 by News Staff

Using the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the HARPS instrument at ESO’s La Silla 3.6-m telescope, astronomers have detected a...

Oct 1, 2024 by News Staff

An exoplanet at least half the mass of Venus orbits Barnard’s star, the closest single star to the Sun, once every 3.15 days. An artist’s impression...