Washington’s unease over ‘low-orbit satellites’ deployment could scuttle US$80 million project for Beijing’s astronomical ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a striking image of a young star’s surroundings, revealing microscopic ...

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

The planet WASP-121b is extreme. It's a gas giant almost twice as big as Jupiter orbiting extremely close to its star–50 ...

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new observations that helped better predict the asteroid's trajectory.

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb or reflect light and is thus impossible to detect using ...

Astronomers say they've discovered one of the most masssive black holes ever discovered in the Cosmic Horseshoe.

AS night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile, four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn hea­vens.

With its clear, dark skies, northern Chile is home to two fifths of the world's astronomical infrastructure, but could that be under threat with increasing urbanisation and mining development?

Close up of the stairways up to the top of ESO's Extremely Large Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert. | Credit: ESO/G. Vecchia These mirrors will allow astronomers to peer into the cosmos like ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 seen above the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert. . | Credit ...