It's a reminder of why preserving pristine night skies remains essential for both astronomy and human wonder.

The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution of the debris cloud created by the smash-up over the course of a month; ...

The Sh2-284 nebula has been imaged VLT Survey Telescope. The "region of dust and gas that’s teeming with young stars, located ...

Last week, four lasers were projected into the sky above the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Paranal site in Chile. The ...

The James Webb and Very Large telescopes spotted a free-floating planet accreting material at a record rate, displaying ...

A gibbous moon, like the one captured here, refers to a phase in which the moon is more than half illuminated but not yet ...

Last week, four lasers were projected into the skies above the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Paranal site in Chile.

Comet 3I/ATLAS was identified as the third confirmed interstellar object after 1I/‘Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov. At the time of its discovery, the comet was faint, with a magnitude of around 17th to 18th.

Massive stars should not be able to have magnetic fields, but around 7% of them do anyway. A recent study found that this ...