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

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

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

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 ...

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

European Southern Observatory A cosmic rainbow over the VLT (IMAGE) ESO. Caption. This ... the observatory sits proudly atop the 2635-metre-high Cerro Paranal in Northern Chile’s Atacama Desert.

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 ...

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. The image spans ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in breathtaking new photos from the European Southern Observatory.

This is an image of the star WOH G64, taken by the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO's VLTI). ESO/K. Ohnaka et al.

This image shows comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) from the European Southern Observatory near its Very Large Telescope (which is visible on the mountaintop of Cerro Paranal at left) as seen by ESO ...

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 ...