Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...

The European Southern Observatory has captured the clearest images yet of the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS as it moves ...

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

Scientists have obtained photographic evidence of a double-detonation Type Ia supernova for the first time. This rare cosmic ...

A new photo shows the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope beneath a star-studded sky at sunset, illuminated by a phenomenon known as the zodiacal light.

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

ESO hosts four different telescopes in Chile: the Very Large Telescope , the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array , the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT, which is currently being built), and ...

This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. These are the expanding ...

Astronomers are excited about the first test images released today from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which show the universe in unprecedented detail, from violent cosmic collisions to faraway ...