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

How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released an image of the ghostly remains of a star that exploded 11,000 years ago, just in time for Halloween.

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 ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO, also more formally the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere) is an intergovernmental research organisation for ...

Gergo Popping, an ESO astronomer at the European Alma Regional Centre who did not take part in the studies, said: “I was really surprised by this clear detection of oxygen in Jades-GS-z14-0.

On. Oct. 5, 1962, the European Southern Observatory was born! The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is an intergovernmental research organization made up of 16 nations that work together to ...

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.

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.

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 ...