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The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO's VLTI) has observed a cloud of cosmic dust at the centre of the galaxy Messier...

A team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile have found evidence of another planet orbiting Proxima...

Orion offers you a spectacular firework display to celebrate the holiday season and the new year in this new image from the European Southern...

Rogue planets are elusive cosmic objects that have masses comparable to those of the planets in our Solar System but do not orbit a...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) has obtained the deepest and sharpest images to date of the region around the...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has captured an image of a planet orbiting b Centauri, a two-star system that can...

Astronomers have revealed the closest pair of supermassive black holes to Earth ever observed.

Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), astronomers have discovered a small black hole outside the Milky Way by looking at...

Astronomers have imaged 42 of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter.

The sharpest and most detailed images yet of the asteroid Kleopatra.

A team of astronomers have used the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile to shed new light on planets around...

Using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, astronomers have unambiguously detected the presence of...