Using the VISTA telescope, the European Southern Observatory put 13 years of work into the map, which consists of 200,000 ...

"Detecting an exomoon would be quite extraordinary, and because of Io, we know that a volcanic exomoon is possible." ...

But a new NASA study may have found a clue that one is orbiting a planet some 635 light-years from Earth. The inference comes ...

On. Oct. 5, 1962, the European Southern Observatory was born! The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is an intergovernmental ...

Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting ...

As I finished my Ph.D. in 1992, the universe was full of mystery—we didn't even know exactly what it is made of. One could ...

New research done at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reveals potential signs of a rocky, volcanic moon orbiting an exoplanet ...

Researchers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed. Dubbed REBELS-25, this disc galaxy seems as ...

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile, started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way years ago. The goal was ...

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 ...