On Earth, wind can transport particles of dust and debris across the planet, with sand from the Sahara ending up...
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...
Astronomers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), the European Southern Observatory (ESO), and the MIT Kavli Institute and...
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”...
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), two teams of astronomers have observed the aftermath of the collision between NASA’s Double...
Following enormous collisions, such as asteroid impacts, some amount of material from an impacted world may be ejected into space....
A large asteroid will safely zoom between Earth and the Moon on Saturday, a once-in-a-decade event that will be used...
A white dwarf star can explode as a supernova when its mass exceeds the limit of about 1.4 solar masses....
A group of scientists from the University of Seville, in collaboration with experts from the University of the Basque Country,...
