The Very Large Telescope in Chile has found, for the first time, an infant planet nestled in spiral arms of dust around a ...

The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for ...

Astronomers may have captured the rare moment of a planet forming around a young star, HD 135344B, 440 light-years away. Using the powerful ERIS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, they spotted ...

Astronomers have likely witnessed a planet forming in real time, seen inside a spiral arm of the HD 135344B protoplanetary ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

Espinoza is a leader in the new massive James Webb Space Telescope study of rocky worlds, specifically to find out if planets around red dwarfs could have air. The campaign, first reported by Mashable ...

Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope got the first photographic evidence of a white dwarf that detonated twice in a supernova.

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is one of the most powerful ground-based astronomical tools on the planet. Despite its name ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain life.

This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. These are the expanding remains of a star that exploded hundreds of years ago in a double ...

The world's largest telescope is almost as big as your house—and it’s unlocking the universe’s biggest mysteries.