This might sound like an obvious thing for a professional stargazer to say. But astrophysicist Federica Bianco was reacting ...

An international team of astronomers led by the University of Galway has discovered the likely site of a new planet in ...

New images of a young star, 2MASSJ1612, could have captured the birth of a giant gas planet larger than Jupiter.

The astronomers now hope to be able to take an actual image of the young planet using the sensitivity of JWST.

The Very Large Telescope has captured a new planet forming around star RIK 113, offering unprecedented detail into the ...

This means observers see it as it was when the Universe was less than 300 million years old, about 2% of its present age, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) said. Researchers previously ...

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 ...

On. Oct. 5, 1962, the European Southern Observatory was born! The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is an intergovernmental research organization made up of 16 nations that work together to ...

An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Galway, has discovered the likely site of a new planet in formation, most likely a gas giant planet up to a few times the mass of Jupiter ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released an image of the ghostly remains of a star that exploded 11,000 years ago, just in time for Halloween. The event is known as the Vela supernova ...