"Uranus is weird, so it's always been uncertain how much the magnetic field actually interacts with its satellites." ...

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

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

A fortunate dozen spent a night with the 4.3-meter Lowell Discovery Telescope, happy to be gazing at some great deep-sky ...

On remote mountain tops across the world, a new breed of optical and infrared telescopes stands sentry, watching the heavens. They are the colossi of modern astronomy. Twice the size of their ...

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

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 ...

Astronomers have employed NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to conduct a detailed study of a chemically peculiar star known as HD 72968.

Using the Very Large Telescope, the researchers were able to study the density and distance of the gas affected by the quasar’s radiation.Since the light from these objects came from billions of ...

The new study combined observations from both the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), which ESO ...