Orbiting Barnard's star, the nearest solo star to Earth, the world is too hot to be habitable—a scorching 257 degrees ...

The map consists of 13 years of work totaling 200,000 images, thanks to the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope.

Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting ...

The single nearest star to the Sun—which is to say, the closest star moving independent from a star system—has at least one ...

This rocky planet, discovered with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, is smaller than Earth, ...

"Do you feel lost looking at this Picture of the Week?" European Southern Observatory (ESO) wrote in a statement accompanying ...

Barnard's star is a red dwarf, the smallest type of regular star and much smaller and less luminous than our sun. At about 6 ...

The world—which orbits Barnard's Star, just six light-years from us—has a year that lasts barely three Earth days.

Barnard’s star is a red dwarf about six light-years away from our sun and six light-years away from Earth. It is considered ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet around Barnard’s star, one of the sun’s closest neighbours, but it is too hot for ...

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some ...

Taya and his colleagues have conducted a theoretical analysis indicating that heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energies ...