Astronomers have uncovered a massive, hidden exoplanet nestled in the dusty disc of a young star—MP Mus—by combining ...

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet—between three and ten times the size of Jupiter—hiding in the swirling disk of ...

A monster exoplanet as big as 10 times the size of Jupiter has emerged from the stellar gas and dust surrounding a young star ...

When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

European Southern Observatory A cosmic rainbow over the VLT (IMAGE) ESO Caption This eye-catching Picture of the Week was captured from ESO’s Paranal Observatory.

Scientists used the European Southern Observatory 's Very Large Telescope to observe the galaxy for some 50 hours, stitching together more than 100 exposures to create the picture.

A galaxy is robbed of its gas and stars in a new image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The spiral galaxy, called NGC 3312, lies within a large cluster known as Hydra I. Located over ...

Astronomers have taken a zoomed-in photo of a star outside the Milky Way for the first time, the European Southern Observatory announced in a statement Thursday.

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory. In new photos of this planet parade, the wispy glow ...

Shrouded by a swirl of gas and dust, a gas giant, roughly three to ten times the size of Jupiter, was found in a new ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is the pre-eminent intergovernmental science and technology organisation in astronomy. It carries out an ambitious programme focused on the design ...