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 ...

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

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

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, the smallest type of regular star and much smaller and less luminous than our sun. At about 6 ...

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

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope have confirmed the existence of at least one ...

Years ago, astronomers at the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile, started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way. The goal was ...

The exoplanet was discovered while searching for a hypothesized earth-like planet believed to be three times larger than ...