Stunning photos show bright comet lighting up the dark skies above ESO'sParanal Observatory, future home of the world's ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...
Workers in Chile are making progress on the Extremely Large Telescope, planned as one of the most capable astronomical ...
A stronomers using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have imaged a filament of the ...
Paranal’s facilities, however, should soon be outclassed by ESO’s under-construction $1.5-billion Extremely Large Telescope, or ELT, which boasts a light-gathering primary mirror nearly 40 ...
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...
Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.
Supermassive black holes can fuel their own growth by cooling and recycling gas, creating a continuous cycle of feeding and ...