In Portugal, Lisbon was forecast to reach 33 C (91 F), typical for this time of the year, though some inland areas could ...

The team used the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in ...

An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its ...

The findings underscore Webb's capability to explore low-mass planets around nearby stars, offering new insights into planet ...

This deep view of the Orion Constellation glows in reddish hues thanks to a filtered view of hydrogen alpha emission, a type ...

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...

The first batch of test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is scheduled to be released Monday at 11:30 a.m., followed ...

The Sculptor galaxy, also known as NGC 253, is similar in size, mass, and shape to our own spiral Milky Way. ESO researcher Enrico Congiu said ...

A large, rotating protoplanetary disk of dust and gas surrounds the young star, which is 431 light-years away from us.

Located 1.1 million light years from Earth, the vast Sculptor Galaxy contains around 500 nebulae, or star-forming regions ...