Australian astronomers have provided vital information in the global effort to understand the brightest-ever detected gamma ray burst, which swept...
The secret has been hiding in plain view for 40 years. But it took the insight of a veteran astronomer...
An explosion the size of our solar system has baffled scientists, as part of its shape—similar to that of an...
The cosmos would look a lot better if Earth’s atmosphere wasn’t photo bombing it all the time. Even images obtained...
University of Toronto researcher Amanda Cook has found a way to use bright signals coming from across the universe to...
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”...
