Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...

Very Large Telescope observations of the galaxy revealed that there was likely a “sudden awakening of the massive black hole ...

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

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 -- ...

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The Sh2-284 nebula has been imaged VLT Survey Telescope. The "region of dust and gas that’s teeming with young stars, located some 15 000 light-years away from Earth," according to the European ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

Top diplomats from Germany and France went to Damascus on behalf of the European Union. It’s the first such trip in years, ...

Some stargazers are calling it a planetary parade: Every other planet in our solar system can be seen in the sky tonight.

While privately funded programs to develop space vehicles and execute extraterrestrial missions have been in play for years, ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a binary star orbiting perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*. This stellar pair defies ...

A new image from the Very Large Telescope captures a cosmic cloud referred to as the Running Chicken Nebula, given its bright ...