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

An international team of astronomers has used the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) to carefully study the star VFTS 682 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small ...

This might sound like an obvious thing for a professional stargazer to say. But astrophysicist Federica Bianco was reacting ...

Astronomers led by a group at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, said it used SPHERE — an instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope ...

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 ...

BERLIN — Scientists said Tuesday they have switched on a new telescope at the European Southern Observatory as part of an effort to create an automated network for spotting asteroids that might ...

Scientists using the European Southern Observatory telescope didn’t find any planets quite the size of Earth or any that seemed habitable or even unusual. But their announcement increased the ...

They studied more than 300 galaxies in the southern sky and discovered that the early universe, at 2.5 billion years old, was much bluer than it is today because it was filled with young ...

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 ...