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

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

A team of international astronomers has uncovered what may be a gas giant planet forming around a distant young star. Using ...

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

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

Whatever the origin story, TOI-6894b is leading the ranks of other known gas giants orbiting small and faint stars that astronomers want to study. Scientists also have their eyes on LHS 3154 b, GJ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful cosmic backdrop.