Type Ia supernovae are triggered by white dwarfs—the fading cores of dead stars. These stellar corpses often steal matter ...

The extrasolar planet, dubbed TWA 7b, also has the lowest mass of any planet that has been directly imaged beyond the solar ...

In addition to providing a trove of information about the early universe, the James Webb Space Telescope since its 2021 ...

The three rings around the star, which stretch more than 100 times the distance separating the Sun and Earth, had previously been spotted by the Very Large Telescope in Chile.

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

The three rings around the star, which stretch more than 100 times the distance separating the Sun and Earth, had previously been spotted by the Very Large Telescope in Chile.

The Giant Magellan Telescope, one of the largest telescopes ever built, is entering the final design phase and is expected to ...

Texas astronomers are part of the effort to construct the Giant Magellan Telescope – an effort that will bring a new level of ...

ESO hosts four different telescopes in Chile: the Very Large Telescope (VLT), the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT, which is currently being ...

The same goes for ground-based telescopes like the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory in Chile. While binoculars can easily capture the entire full moon, Hubble's field of view ...