A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...
Gaseous water has been detected in the planet-forming disk surrounding the star V883 Orionis (ALMA) using the Atacama Large ...
The Sh2-284 nebula has been imaged VLT Survey Telescope. The "region of dust and gas that’s teeming with young stars, located ...
The Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument captured unprecedented images of 51 dusty rings shaping young planetary systems.
The Southern Ocean is the engine room of global heat and carbon uptake – and it’s changing faster and more dramatically than ...
Astronomers have detected a gamma-ray burst (GRB) like none other. GRB 250702B was longer than any ever observed and repeated ...
MPE Director and Nobel Laureate Reinhard Genzel is spearheading an open letter signed by nearly 30 eminent international ...
A rare confluence of factors makes the Atacama an ideal home for some of the world’s biggest astronomical projects – dry ...
Drawing on the University of Arizona’s renowned strength in interferometry, astronomers from Steward Observatory are leading ...
Only 70 light-years from Earth, a star called Kappa Tucanae A hosts one of astronomy’s strangest mysteries. Around it swirls ...
Teams in France are assembling the core of ITER, the gigantic experiment that seeks to harness energy from fusion, similar to ...