Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first ...

For the first time, scientists have found strong evidence of a "polar planet"—a planet whose orbit is tilted at 90 degrees compared to the orbit of its two host stars. The discovery, made using the ...

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope observed asteroid 2024 YR4 in Jan. 2025. The probability of the ...

This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among ...

The telescope sits about 12 miles away from the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), which sits atop the Cerro Paranal mountaintop. The site was chosen for its ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars. The brown dwarfs ...

Simulations imitating the ELT's operational state have shown that the Very Large Telescope's (VLT) giant successor will take mere hours to find signs of life on other bodies—if there are any to ...

Marconcini et al. A distant galaxy is home to a ravenous supermassive black hole that appears to be playing with its food in a lively new image from the Very Large Telescope. The photo suggests ...

In the new study, astronomers combined data from the MAROON-X spectrograph attached to the Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii and the ESPRESSO spectrograph on the Very Large Telescope in Chile.