I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

Recently discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS have been captured using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large ...

Astronomers at Durham University and collaborators at the University of Warwick used the European Southern Observatory’s Very ...

Researchers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have identified a vibrant, ...

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star's surroundings and create a shock wave.

Very Large Telescope observations of a free-floating rogue planet shows that it is "eating up gas and dust from its surroundings at a rate of six billion tonnes a second," according to the European ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...

"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

In this case, RXJ0528+2838 is orbited by a still-living star similar in size to our sun. In such cases, material from the ...