Seventy light-years from Earth, a star called Kappa Tucanae A harbors one of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries: dust so ...

Astronomers from Texas have witnessed the moment a star's surface is torn apart by a supernova, becoming oblong in the ...

Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a ...

New observations show that asteroid 1998 KY26 is a mere 11 meters across and spinning twice as fast as previously thought.

U-M is the only U.S. university that has signed the agreement to participate in the project led by the European Southern Observatory MOSAIC, shown in ...

Chilean astrophotographer Osvaldo Castillo captured this breathtaking view.

Astronomers have witnessed a massive star's explosive death, a supernova, for the first time in its early stages. Observed by the VLT, the star, 15 times the Sun's mass, exploded in an unusual ...

A brilliant comet lights up the night sky over Chile's Atacama Desert in this stunning image captured by a photographer with the European Southern Observatory in January 2025. For several days in ...

A stellar snuff film. The post Astronomers Witness the Moment a Fatal Shockwave Bursts Through the Surface of a Star appeared ...

Astronomers have revealed a nearby spiral galaxy in all its brilliant glory, shining in thousands of colors. The dazzling panoramic shot released Wednesday of the Sculptor galaxy by a telescope in ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is the pre-eminent intergovernmental science and technology organisation in astronomy. It carries out an ambitious programme focused on the design, construction ...