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 ...

Captured just days after its discovery, the images offer the clearest view yet of this rare visitor from beyond our solar system.

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

New research has revealed everything astronomers currently know about the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful cosmic backdrop.