This incredible image, taken for the European Southern Observatory (ESO) by Alberto Ghizzi Panizza is taken from Pukará de ...

On January 7, 2025, the European Commission established the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) as a European ...

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Very Large Telescope observations of the galaxy revealed that there was likely a “sudden awakening of the massive black hole at its core,” according to the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Credit; ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

The array is located less than 10 km southeast of the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) existing Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert. © CTAO The European Commission today established the ...

Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter's clouds. Instead of being formed of ammonia ice -- ...

New research from a team of citizen scientists challenges the old idea that Jupiter's visible clouds are formed of ammonia ...

A year of discovery awaits, with missions poised to reveal new insights about our home planet, solar system, galaxy, and ...

An expert from the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory has revealed some of the most likely impacts of an eruption in the famed national park.

The telescope’s massive digital camera was built to take a lot of photos of the sky, in quick succession, for a very long ...

Satellite imagery has revealed the dramatic extent of an eruption that kicked off just before Christmas, with fountains pouring lava across hundreds of acres.