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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Jan. 4 (UPI) --The European Southern Observatory said Wednesday that its Chile-based telescope has given the clearest picture yet of the "Serpens" constellation. The constellation, named by ...

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 ...

Using data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile and other ground-based observatories, scientists were able to confirm something marvelous about BH3 ...

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 ...

The red supergiant star is about 2,000 times larger than the sun. Astronomers have taken a close-up photo of a star outside our own galaxy, the Milky Way, for the first time, the European Southern ...

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.

A poetic look at Chile’s Paranal Observatory by photographer Benedict Redgrove, selected for The Photography Annual 2018, an annual award scheme from CR celebrating the best images of the year and ...