Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), of which ESO is a partner, astronomers have discovered a large reservoir of...
On October 9, 2022, an intense pulse of gamma-ray radiation swept through our solar system, overwhelming gamma-ray detectors on numerous...
A team of astronomers has discovered one of the biggest black holes ever found, taking advantage of a phenomenon called...
The Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together with some 40 research institutions...
Astronomers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), the European Southern Observatory (ESO), and the MIT Kavli Institute and...
Lunar surface water has attracted much attention due to its potential for in-situ resource utilization by future lunar exploration missions...
An international team of researchers has used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to measure the temperature of the rocky...
Gas giants orbiting our sun show a clear pattern; the more massive the planet, the lower the percentage of “heavy”...
A new study using the now-retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has pieced together the first detailed, wide-area map...
If you’ve ever seen a shooting star, you might have actually seen a meteor on its way to Earth. Those...
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), two teams of astronomers have observed the aftermath of the collision between NASA’s Double...
Researchers have analyzed samples of the asteroid Ryugu collected by the Japanese Space Agency’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft and found uracil, one...
