The Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured a "violent cosmic ...

The CRIRES+ instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has been used to measure the ...

Miguel Claro took one last look at the comet as it bid farewell to Earth for the next 80,000 years. Miguel Claro is a ...

Very Large Telescope observations of the galaxy revealed that there was likely a “sudden awakening of the massive black hole ...

A fifth planet has been detected within the habitable zone of a neighboring star, where conditions could perhaps support liquid water and potentially life.

The European Southern Observatory (ESO, also more formally the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere) is an intergovernmental research organisation for ...

What can a newborn planet teach astronomers about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in ...

With a remarkable observational campaign that involved 12 telescopes both on the ground and in space, including three European Southern Observatory (ESO) facilities, astronomers have uncovered the ...

An international team of astronomers has used the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) to carefully study the star VFTS 682 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small ...

A massive cloud of dust and glowing gases speckled with newborn stars in the shape of a seagull shines in a stunning image captured by a telescope in Chile. A new photo from the European Southern ...