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 ...

The latest cosmic puzzle for scientists comes from the constellation Leo, roughly 240 lightyears from Earth. Astronomers, ...

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 ...

Whatever the origin story, TOI-6894b is leading the ranks of other known gas giants orbiting small and faint stars that ...

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 ...

After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion ...

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 ...

This eye-catching Picture of the Week was captured from ESO’s Paranal Observatory. Home to ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the observatory sits proudly atop the 2635-metre-high Cerro Paranal in ...